Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
From Thomas Mann
There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.
What is uttered is finished and done with.
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
It could become much worse.
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