“For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.”
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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
