We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins

We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins

Do not love your neighbour as yourself. If you are on good terms with yourself it is an impertinence; if on bad, an injury.

The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?