The Narrator

"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt."

"It is what you are that matters, not what you look like."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of that world is a form of rebellion."

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

"What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?"

"There are moments when History becomes Allegory."

"The ugliness of the world is only a very pale reflection of its wickedness."

"It is in the brain, not the heart, that new creations are stirred into being."

"All trials are trials for one's life."

"There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love."

"Why is it that one runs to one's ruin because one runs away from it?"

"It is what you are that matters, not what you look like."

"The mutability of all human things should teach us not to feel too secure."

"What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?"

"I suppose that when a man has found out that he can do anything, he's not able to understand the reasons or excuses of other people's shortcomings."

"I wonder if we understand what we are at, when we pray."

"If he had done these things, he himself, bit by bit, and day by day, the true nature of the acting would have been revealed."

"The mask can be a curse as well as a blessing."

"Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things."

"The great secret of life is not to do what one wishes, but to will what one does."

"How shallow are the arbitrary distinctions that society makes upon dress."

"The value of a thing is not always its price, but its worth."

"The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish."

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

"There are moments when history ceases, and deserts of eternity open out before one's eyes."

"The man who regards his own life as a matter of importance so great that he dare not waste a single moment of it."

"What fire does not the eye that follows beauty carry within it?"

"He had always been self-centered, but to a wonderful degree, consciously self-centered."

"The only person who knows you is yourself, yet even you don't fully know yourself."

"Fashion, by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment universal."