"It was Lazarus faith, not his poverty, which brought him into Abraham's bosom."

"Turgenev: The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation."

"The more freely abstract the form becomes, the purer, and also the more primitive it sounds. Therefore, in a composition in which corporeal elements are more or less superfluous, they can be more or l…"

"The bourgeois, for his part, possessed neither of the inordinate ambitions of the great nor of the patience of the poor, would seem to have to remain ignorant both of the sins of whose who exalted the…"

"Suddenly, immediately, things took a certain shape a very brilliant creation was worked out in extraordinary detail, with marvellous experiences, contact with divine beings, and all kinds of manifesta…"