We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.
Saintliness is also a temptation.
Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless.
Obligations, hatreds, injuries; what did I expect my memories to be? I was forgetting remorse. Now I have a complete past.