The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

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.