and this passion, like bad kerosene, barely burns.

The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts; every act is an art.

Aviation in air, in water and in spirit. Its laws are different in all three cases. The spirit soars the more it weighs and sinks into itself. The heavier the spirit, the higher and farther it flies.

The pure and poorly adapted one who crashed against the world of fakes and cheats.

Mechanics is a means or discipline for the realization of life, but not life itself. It ought to carry us to life itself.