“To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”

“To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”

“To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.”

“Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.”

“Yet, as has been said of him before, no theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself. He felt keenly conscious of how barren all intellectual speculation is when separated from action and experiment. He knew that the senses, no less than the soul, have their spiritual mysteries to reveal.”

“An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.”

“We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.”