The most painful thing in life is to wake up from a dream and find no way out. Dreamers are fortunate people. If no way out can be seen, the important thing is not to awaken the sleepers.

It is in the nature of things that some people should be unlucky enough to get their heads chopped off.

Though love is instinctive, it cannot develop without a certain stimulus and use.

When you talk with famous scholars, the best thing is to pretend that occasionally you do not quite understand them. If you understand too little, you will be despised; if you understand too much, you will be disliked; if you just fail occasionally to understand them, you will suit each other very well.

Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!

The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.

The most important thing... was to change their spirit; and since at that time I felt that literature was the best means to this end, I decided to promote literary movement.