You shouldn't punish others for your own choices

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

But there are moments when one has to choose between living one’s own life, fully, entirely,
completely — or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!