Status Updates From Manon Lescaut

‘One cannot reflect upon the precepts of morality without being amazed to see them at one and the same time revered and neglected, and one wonders what is the explanation of this strange contradiction of the human heart which draws it towards theories of good and perfection which in practice it repels.’

‘Great art does not depend upon faithful portrayal of some individual experience but upon presentation of that experience in terms of universal human truth and in beautiful or striking form.’