To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.

I'm inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It's not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.

In great memories there lies the seed of growth.

What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?

The old terms must be invented with new meaning and given new explanations. Liberty, equality, and fraternity are no longer what they were in the days of the late-lamented guillotine. This is what the politicians will not understand; and that is why I hate them. They want only their own special revolutions- external revolutions, political revolutions, etc. But that is only dabbling. What is really needed is a revolution of the human spirit.

Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.

I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority