You are persecuted and despised. It were better that a person should be the oppressed than that he should be the oppressor; and fitter that he should be a victim to the frailty of human instincts than that he should be powerful and crush the flowers of life and disfigure the beauties of feeling with his desire.

He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books.

Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive.

Because the soul is like a flower that folds its petals when dark comes, and breathes not its fragrance into the phantoms of the night.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

And your fragrance shall be my breath, And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons.

I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.