"When a man knows how to love, he knows how to live."

"I sleep with my eyes open."

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent."

"Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the soul. It is an ardent, celestial, inextinguishable flame."

"Forty years is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age."