I realize that, while often happy and often cheerful, I am always sad.

And, like the great damned souls, I shall always feel that thinking is worth more than living.

I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.

FIRST WATCHER Why do people die? SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough.

To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.

When one of my Japanese teacups is broken, I imagine that the real cause was not the careless hand of a maid but the anxieties of the figures inhabiting the curves of that porcelain. Their grim decision to commit suicide doesn't shock me: they used the maid as one of us might use a gun.

Ser compreendido é prostituir-se.