"Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you."

I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile, and cunning.

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

人は、自分が選んだ道に責任を持つべきだ。