“But what about the secret I bear?" I asked."Tell it to the world," he advised. And that is what I am doing.”

“So I knew then that she loved me; and I therefore loved her. I have always known that I will inevitably fall in love with any woman who loves me.”

“Conquerors, my son, consider as true history only what they have themselves fabricated.”

“Every day, and in every way, I am becoming better and better.”

“Show me how you drink and I will tell you who you are.”

“I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest, to make money they don't want, to buy things they don't need, to impress people they don't like.”

“All the same I keep on looking for someone incomprehensible who won't understand me either, because I have a terrible thirst for brotherhood”