The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give. – Alexander Alekhine
I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands. – Alexander Alekhine
Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions! – Alexander Alekhine
But on the first day came veiled spirits from all hours into his soul… a soft intoxication, which the atmosphere of nature, like that of a wine-store, communicated to him, spread itself, like an enchanted solitude around his soul. – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,