Blind yourself, for I am blind.

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

A fact is like a sack which won't stand up if it's empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into it the reason and sentiment which caused it to exist.

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow.

I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.

Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves.

Pretending is a virtue. If you cant pretend, you can't be king.