“Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart; every risk we take contains a mystery that can’t be solved.”
“Every virtuous act is inspired by a dark secret.”
“If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it. . . . for me, every act of art is the act of solving a mystery.”
“Swords can’t solve every problem.”
“Every heart has its secret sorrows which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.”
“The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuous in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.”