“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”

“But in the loneliest desert happens the second metamorphosis: here the spirit becomes a lion; he will seize his freedom and be master in his own wilderness.”

“The spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers the world.”

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”

“Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit.”

“Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master…Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and go? ‘Thou shalt’ is the name of the great dragon.But the spirit of the lion says, ‘I will.”

“spirit and his solitude, and for ten years did not weary of it. But finally he had a change of heart”