The reign of the tyrant ends with his death, and the reign of the martyr starts with it.

A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.

One should be an enigma not just to others but to oneself too. I study myself. When I'm tired of that I light a cigar to pass the time, and think: God only knows what the good Lord really meant with me, or what He meant to make of me.

...why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?

In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes--in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one's inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness etc., before one is sufficiently naked.

Love believes all things and yet is never deceived.

Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love