Daniel

“there is only one true heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it”
― Roman Rolland

“Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly? Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Moon and Sixpence

“Some cannot loosen their own chains and can nonetheless redeem their friends.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“As Proust once said, classically beautiful women should be left to men without imagination.”
― Alain de Botton, Essays In Love