Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.

I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself to men when they aspired beyond the animals.

He who bears injustice alone is terrible to behold.

The English are the people of consummate cant.

Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.

... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity of existence into notions with which one can live.

One has to know the size of one's stomach.