Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

The past is such a subtle thing. [But] in the end, nothing else exists, everything is made of the past, even the future.

... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.

To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.

Avoid that romantic trap: saying more than you feel, forcing yourself to feel more than you've said!

doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?