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We shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.

Beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is a hope.
They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.

Ты любишь всех, а любить всех - значит не любить никого.Тебе все одинаково безразличны.

- И всё же как это ужасно - задушить царя.
- Но почему? У царей такая же шея, как и у других людей.

Indeed, I know of nothing in the world that is either nobler or rarer than a devoted friendship.

Yet Love is better than Life, and what is the heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man?