Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.

All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.

Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one likes is plebeian; the noble man aspires to order and law.'

In these years we are witnessing the gigantic spectacle of innumerable human lives wandering about lost in their own labyrinths, through not having anything to which to give themselves.

Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world

The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture.