self
“You cannot change what you are, only what you do.”
“I am one, none, and a hundred thousand.”
“To be great, be whole; exclude nothing.”
“The poet is a faker who pretends so completely that he even pretends the pain he truly feels.”
“I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”
“There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.”
“Is there no way out of the mind?”
“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.”
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
“A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.”
“The only true paradise is paradise lost.”
“We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.”
“The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.”
“Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.”
“Transform jealousy to admiration, and what you admire will become part of your life.”
“He who does not really feel himself lost is obliged to remain in illusions.”
“I write to discover what I know.”
“I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.”
“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant—there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.”