To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.

The State is concentric, but the individual is eccentric.

Nations have their ego, just like individuals.

You ask me why I don’t love you, but surely you must believe I am very fond of you and if to desire to possess a person wholly, to admire and honour that person deeply, and to seek to secure that person’s happiness in every way is to “love” then perhaps my affection for you is a kind of love. I will tell you this that your soul seems to me to be the most beautiful and simple soul in the world and it may be because I am so conscious of this when I look at you that my love or affection for you loses much of its violence.

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.

(...) You cruel creature, little mite of a thing with a heart the size of a fullstop.