One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures.
And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship.
We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses.
The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.
I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul.