but perhaps we should love what we cannot understand

Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.

Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.

If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction.

The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.

Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.

Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.