“It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, itpromptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedomthat it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it,obeying so easily and willingly that one is led to say that thispeople has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement.”

“Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.”

“لا يوجد في العالم من يشعر بالمسؤولية عن الفساد الذي يقع في الأرض وإنما ينسبه إلى الآخرين.”

“J'aime ce qui me nourrit : le boire, le manger, les livres.”

“Soiés resolus de ne servir plus, et vous voilà libres.”

“Inspiration can be a wonderful thing, but it can also be quite fickle ... If you want to be able to call on inspiration reliably then you need to work on it with regularity. Someone once said that if you only go out with a bucket to collect water when it's raining, sometimes you'll get water. But if you go out with your bucket every day, even when it's not raining, sometimes you'll catch unexpected rain. And also, a strange thing may happen: that the very act of going out with your bucket may actually provoke such rain.”

“Love. It's so close to hate, it's almost indistinguishable. But this is how it was for the two of them. Love and hate. Life and death. Joy and anguish.”