In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look aro... - Leo Tolstoy

"truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."

"Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness"

"He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began."

"A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul."

"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."