Sublime

find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.

This above all, to thine own self be true, And it must follow as the night of the day, Thou can’st not then be false to any man.

Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic."

“Because to influence a person is to give him one’s own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else’s music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. The aim of life is self-

Inconsciemment, il définit pour moi les lignes d’une école nouvelle, d’une école qui unirait la passion de l’esprit romantique à la perfection de l’esprit grec. L’harmonie du corps et de l’âme, quel rêve !... Nous, dans notre aveuglement, nous avons séparé ces deux choses et avons inventé un réalisme qui est vulgaire, une idéalité qui est vide