Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

Each individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that he's something innately superior, something eternal--and lives, is obligated to live, in the moment and for the moment.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor's nature.

Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where for the weary an the heavy-laden there waits sleep, sweet sleep.

Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.

Behind me there are already so many memories (...) Lots of memories, but no point in remembering them, and ahead of me a long, long road with nothing to aim for ... I just don't want to go along it.