Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

I am 'too fiery'... yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything.

While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.

This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.

No temple can still the personal griefs and strifes in the breasts of its visitors.

For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.