“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”

“Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.”

“Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.”

“To exist means to be something, a thing, a feeling, a thought, an idea. All existence is particular. Only being is universal, in the sense that every being is compatible with every other being. Existences clash, being – never. Existence means becoming, change, birth and death, and birth again, while in being there is silent peace.”

“Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain”

“IF YOU LOOK at life's totality you will notice that every living thing exists for something else. The failure to give and receive is followed first by unconsciousness and then death.”

“There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.”

“When things are exquisitely beautiful and rare, they shouldn't be privately owned.”

“The thing about leaving something behind for the last time is that you rarely realize you're doing it.”

“Every thing in this world exist to wear you down”