“Due nemici sono lo stesso uomo dimezzato.”

“Né avec une âme habituelle, j'en ai demandé une autre à la musique : ce fut le début de malheurs inespérés.”

“Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself.”

“Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. This is why with Chopin we feel so little like gods.”

“Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.”

“We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.”

“I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?”