"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."

We are all the sum of our contradictions.

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

人们变得文明，不在于他们愿意相信的程度，而在于他们愿意怀疑的程度。