"What the collective age wants allows and approves is the perpetual holiday from the self."
- Thomas Mann
"No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself."
"Time cools time clarifies no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours."
"Speech is civilization itself. The word even the most contradictory word preserves contact - it is silence which isolates."
"There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it."