“The town itself is disagreeable; but then, all around, you find an inexpressible beauty of nature.”

“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”

“But what I felt was inexpressible gratitude for the music, that in this horror there could be something as beautiful as that.”

“If you have true gratitude, it will express itself automatically. It will be visible in your eyes, around your being, in your aura. It is like the fragrance of a flower. In most cases if there is a beautiful flower, the fragrance will be there naturally. The flower and its fragrance cannot be separated.”

“And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body, and had the feeling I might drown in beauty. At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.”

“Passion is of the nature of seed, and finds nourishment within, tending to a predominance which determines all currents towards itself, and makes the whole life its tributary.”