“I have striven never to betray myself”
“To have failed is to have striven, to have striven is to have grown.”
“I cannot betray you, but I might betray myself. Come, come! wait and see me betray myself. I shall do it so nicely.”
“I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.”
“It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?”
“Having chosen this foolishness, I was a free being. How could the world ever stop me, how could I betray myself, if I was not afraid?”