One Must First Learn To Live Oneself

Above All, Do Not Lie To Yourself.

What Man Wants Is Simply Independent Choice, Whatever That Independence May Cost And Wherever It May Lead.

What Can Become Of Him If He Is In Such Bondage To The Habit Of Satisfying The Innumerable Desires He Has Created For Himself? He Is Isolated, And What Concern Has He With The Rest Of Humanity? They Have Succeeded In Accumulating A Greater Mass Of Objects, But The Joy In The World Has Grown Less.

As For Me, This Is My Story: I Worked And Was Tortured. You Know What It Means To Compose? No, Thank God, You Do Not! I Believe You Have Never Written To Order, By The Yard, And Have Never Experienced That Hellish Torture.

There Is Nothing Easier Than Lopping Off Heads And Nothing Harder Than Developing Ideas.