“it is better to be a part of beautyfor one instant and then cease toexist than to exist foreverand never be a part of beauty”
“...for one instant, I saw the stars close enough to touch. Closer than that, part of me. Are they really so far or just that we never reach for them?”
“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
“It must be remembered that no art lives by nature, only by acts of voluntary attention on the part of human individuals. When these are not made it ceases to exist.”
“With the wise man, what he has does not cease to be enjoyable because some one else has something else. Envy, in fact, is one form of vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations”
“There's a part of me that knows that I'll never die. There's a part of me that knows better.”