"A young girl is excused for not being able to give reasons, they say she lives in her feelings. It is different with me. Generally, I have so many and usually mutually contradictory reasons that, for …"

"My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known."

"The very concept of a 'public' makes a mockery of individuality."

"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints,…"

"Freedom's possibility is not to be able to do this or that, but to be able to do this and that."