“Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.”

“Two souls with but a single thought,Two hearts that beat as one!”

“Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.”

“philosophy of art usually lacks one of two things: either the philosophy or the art”

“Nevertheless, I am versed in the use of two weapons: saber and cannon — and, perhaps, one other . . .”

“Why go on clinging to this clod of earth, this way of life, why pay heed to what your neighbour says? It is so parochial to bind oneself to views which are no longer binding even a couple of hundred miles away. Orient and Occident are chalk-lines drawn before us to fool our timidity. I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact that two nations happen to hate and fight one another, or that two continents are separated by an ocean, or that all around it a religion is taught which, nevertheless, did not exist a few thousand years ago. All that is not you, it says to itself.”

“Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.”