"May God continue to give you the strength to build your temple of Isis, and may the pure fire there devour all your afflictions so that you may awake like a new phoenix."

"I shall live in my work."

"I never write a work continuously, without interruption."

"The true artist has no pride. He sees unfortunately that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad that he has not yet reached t…"

"How great was the humiliation when one who stood beside me heard the distant sound of a shepherd's pipe, and I heard nothing; or heard the shepherd singing, and I heard nothing. Such experiences broug…"