I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn't mind being pitied. If you love me, pity me. The human state is pitiable: born to die, capable of so much, accomplishing so little; killing instead of creating, destroying instead of building, hating instead of loving. Pitiful, pitiful.

With enough libraries, all content is free.

It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable.

The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults