How hard it is, how bitter it is to become a man!
Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.
I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that I finally obey.
Without freedom there is no art.
There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and fury of acompletely irrational history or to endow history with the form of human reason.