76 quotes
We may no longer be able to count; but Fate will count.
Light (1919)
You can form no idea of the beauty that is possible!
Light (1919)
It is not enough to speak; you must know words.
Light (1919)
I believe, in spite of all, in truth's victory.
Light (1919)
There is nothing between the paradise dreamed of and the paradise lost. There is nothing, since we always want what we have not got. We hope, and then we regret.
Light (1919)
She, perhaps, was the one I should have always loved; she whom I seek gropingly, desperately, from each to the next.
Light (1919)
There'll be a day when I shall begin something that I shan't finish — a walk, or a letter, or a sentence, or a dream.
Light (1919)
I do not regret my youth and its beliefs. Up to now, I have wasted my time to live. Youth is the true force, but it is too rarely lucid.
Light (1919)
We must not only open our eyes, but our arms, our wings.
Light (1919)
The cult of the masterpieces of art and thought is the only impulse of the soul which, by general consent, has always soared above patriotic littlenesses.
Light (1919)
Desire wears the brain as much as thought wears it. All my being is agog for chances to shine and to be shared.
Light (1919)
To accomplish the majestically practical work, to shape the whole architecture like a statue, base nothing on impossible modifications of human nature; await nothing from pity.
Light (1919)
Truth is simple. They who say that truth is complicated deceive themselves, and the truth is not in them.
Light (1919)
It terrifies one to think for how short a time science has been methodical and of useful industry; and after all, is there anything on earth more marvelously easy than destruction?
Light (1919)
When I have spoken thus, we are no longer the same, for there are no more lies.
Light (1919)
War will come again after this one. It will come again as long as it can be determined by people other than those who fight. The same causes will produce the same effects, and the living will have to give up all hope.
Light (1919)
Will not thoughtful faces arise out of the darkness? (For this is Chaos and the animal Kingdom; and Reason being no more, she has yet to be born.
Light (1919)
Our heart is not made for the abstract formula of happiness, since the truth of things is not made for it either. It beats for emotion and not for peace. Such is the gravity of the truth.
Light (1919)
Animals are innocence incarnate. This horse is like an enormous child, and if one wanted to point out life's innocence face to face, one would have to typify, not a little child, but a horse.
Light (1919)
I had seen Jesus Christ on the margin of the lake. He came like an ordinary man along the path.
Light (1919)