Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. ― Karl Marx

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At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.

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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

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There are people that I am in love with, totally in love with them. I would die for them. I love Michelangelo. I love Charlie Chaplin with all my heart. I love Walt Disney. These are the people I am nuts over. These are my people. I love the great ones.

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Being happy is a great science. If you are not happy, do not be confused. Happiness is hard to achieve. ― Peter Deunov

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Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.

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You were given the power to love in order to use it, no matter what pain it may cause you.

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if you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

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How can you and I really expect to glide naively through life, as if to say, 'Lord, give me experience, but not grief, not sorrow, not pain, not opposition, not betrayal, and certainly not to be forsaken. Keep from me, Lord, all those experiences which made Thee what Thou art! Then, let me come and dwell with Thee and fully share Thy joy!'

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When happiness pours out of your heart, good pours out into the world. ― Gillian Duce

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