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“All who joy would win
Must share it -- Happiness was born a twin.”
― George Gordon Byron, Don Juan

“Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.”
― Carlos Casteneda

“Clamé al cielo, y no me oyó.
Mas, si sus puertas me cierra,
de mis pasos en la Tierra
responda el cielo, no yo.”
― José Zorrilla, Don Juan Tenorio

“A thought expressed is a falsehood." In poetry what is not said and yet gleams through the beauty of the symbol, works more powerfully on the heart than that which is expressed in words. Symbolism makes the very style, the very artistic substance of poetry inspired, transparent, illuminated throughout like the delicate walls of an alabaster amphora in which a flame is ignited.

Characters can also serve as symbols. Sancho Panza and Faust, Don Quixote and Hamlet, Don Juan and Falstaff, according to the words of Goethe, are "schwankende Gestalten."

Apparitions which haunt mankind, sometimes repeatedly from age to age, accompany mankind from generation to generation. It is impossible to communicate in any words whatsoever the idea of such symbolic characters, for words only define and restrict thought, but symbols express the unrestricted aspect of truth.

Moreover we cannot be satisfied with a vulgar, photographic exactness of experimental photoqraphv. We demand and have premonition of, according to the allusions of Flaubert, Maupassant, Turgenev, Ibsen, new and as yet undisclosed worlds of impressionability. This thirst for the unexperienced, in pursuit of elusive nuances, of the dark and unconscious in our sensibility, is the characteristic feature of the coming ideal poetry. Earlier Baudelaire and Edgar Allan Poe said that the beautiful must somewhat amaze, must seem unexpected and extraordinary. French critics more or less successfully named this feature - impressionism.

Such are the three major elements of the new art: a mystical content, symbols, and the expansion of artistic impressionability.

No positivistic conclusions, no utilitarian computation, but only a creative faith in something infinite and immortal can ignite the soul of man, create heroes, martyrs and prophets... People have need of faith, they need inspiration, they crave a holy madness in their heroes and martyrs.

("On The Reasons For The Decline And On The New Tendencies In Contemporary Literature")”
― Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Silver Age of Russian Culture

“When people say, "I've told you fifty times," / They mean to scold, and very often do; / When poets say, "I've written fifty rhymes," / They make you dread that they 'II recite them too;
In gangs of fifty, thieves commit their crimes; / At fifty love for love is rare, 't is true, / But then, no doubt, it equally as true is, / A good deal may be bought for fifty Louis.”
― Lord Byron

“They grieved for those who perished with the cutter, and also for the biscuit casks and butter.”
― Lord Byron

“It was fun to see him becoming sententious again, glorying in a science he had invented, and as positive as a village soothsayer.

'So one should neither give nor receive?' I laughed. 'And if the lover is poor, his mistress indigent, then both she and he must tactfully let themselves and each other die?'

'Let them die,' he repeated.

I had accompanied him as far as the revolving glass door of the lobby.

'Let them die,' he said again. 'It's less dangerous. I can swear on my word of honor that I never gave a present or made a loan or an exchange of anything except . . . this . . .'

He waved both hands in a complicated gesture which fleetingly indicated his chest, his mouth, his genitals, his thighs. Thanks no doubt to my fatigue, I was reminded of an animal standing on its hind legs and unwinding the invisible. Then he resumed his strictly human significance, opened the door, and easily mingled with the night outside, where the sea was already a little paler than the sky.”
― Colette, The Pure and the Impure

“Când întâlneÈ™ti un bărbat ca Don Juanul tău, imposibil, scandalos de seducător, amuză-te cât poÈ›i, dar ai grijă să-È›i încui inima în safe superblindat. Dacă eÈ™ti însă slabă de înger, coteÈ™te-o urgent pe altă uliță.”
― Rodica Ojog-BraÅŸoveanu, O toaletă à la Liz Taylor

“and there the stories
Of martyrs awed, as Spagnoletto tainted
His brush with all the blood of all the sainted.”
― George Gordon Byron

“There is no born lover,
There is no born Don Juan,
For we are all lovers.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“Those in Argentina, Mexico and Peru,
Colombia and the Caribbean
Bear La Mancha and Quixote in their hearts
For he is an ultimate and overlooked Don Juan.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“Mutluluk için doÄŸmadım ben;
Ruhum yabancıdır buna;
Fayda yok yetkin halinizden:
Ben layık değilim ona.
İnanın(vicdan bir güvence)
Evlilik büyük bir işkence.
Size duysam da sıcaklık,
Soğuk tutar alışkanlık;
Ağlarsınız: o yaşlar benim
Dokunmaz hiç yüreğime,
Döndürür beni deliye.
Hangi gülleri,karar verin,
Hymenaios bize hazırlar
Belki de çok uzun yıllar!”
― Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

“Don Juan’s supernatural antagonist hurled those who refuse to repent into lakes of burning brimstone, there to be tormented by devils with horns and tails. Of that antagonist, and of that conception of repentance, how much is left that could be used in a play by me dedicated to you?”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“Es admirable cómo todos los hombres están compendiados en Don Juan. A medida que uno los va conociendo mejor, advierte que aquel personaje es su más fiel retrato. Todos sueñan con las «mil y tres». Todos sueñan con disfrazarse del amante para entrar en la alcoba de la amada ajena. A todos les cosquillea en la imaginación el rapto de la monja. Y al ver una mujer, lo primero que todos piensan es cómo haría yo, si tuviera que hacerlo o si pudiera hacerlo, para añadir ésta a mi lista. No para nada especial. No para ningún refinamiento que no tenga también un gallo. Sino para aumentar la lista y poder cantar sus «mil y tres».”
― Arturo Uslar Pietri, Chúo Gil y otras obras

“Don Juan, azi, nu mai are răbdare să fluiere, nepăsător, între două nopÅ£i
de dragoste. Se suie în maÅŸină, grăbit, ÅŸi apasă pe accelerator.”
― Octavian Paler, Aventuri solitare: două jurnale È™i un contrajurnal

“Seers can see, for instance, the light of the scarabs' emanations expanding to great size.”
― Carlos Castañeda, The Fire from Within

“That is no metaphorical statement," he said. "I mean what I say. Big animals like that have the capacity to read thoughts. And I don't mean guess. I mean they know everything directly.”
― Carlos Castañeda, The Power of Silence: Further Lessons of don Juan

“Briou thinks of those words of Don Juan in Molière's play: "As for me, beauty embraces me wherever I find it, and I can easily yield to the sweet violence with which it sweeps me along." He imagined it as this: a sweet violence, and himself a new Don Juan.”
― Clare Pollard, The Modern Fairies