I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can't do anything to change events anyway.

I have been criticized and ridiculed for turning to astrology, but after a while, I reached the point where I didn't care.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

One hardly saves a world without ruling it.

I'm gonna live till I die.

Before the famine, which was in the 1840s, that was an emotional turning point... There are various documents showing how the Elizabethan English, in particular, were shocked by Irish displays of affection, by the way women acted toward strangers, walking up and putting their arms around them and kissing them right full on the mouth.