People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.

Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single great man.

They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!

I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.

Or renounce life altogether! Accept fate obediently as it is, once and for all, and stifle everything in myself, renouncing any right to act, to live, to love.

Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.