“Against fashion, even tyrants struggle in vain, she thought.”
“Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.”
“The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.”
“When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant.”
“She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself.”
“We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains -- chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment -- in a word, Circumstance -- and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.”