We're all special cases.

Integrity needs no rules.

They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring.

To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate

Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed! I went through the gestures out of boredom or absent-mindedness. Then came human beings; they wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to, and that was unfortunate--for them. As for me, I forgot. I never remembered anything but myself.