“What doesn't hurt - is not life; what doesn't pass - is not happiness.”

“What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be.”

“He who is not delicate flower of your soul to the winds of temptation, whatever it whole and saved and passed on to the end, it's as if it never had.”

“One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.”

“Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves.”

“What does your sorrow do while you sleep? -It’s awake and waiting. And when it loses patience, it wakes me up.”

“I gave in to life. I was not defeated but outplayed.”