to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, read more

to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.

Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.

Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.

Don't cry because it's over, Smile because it happened.

Don't cry because it's over, Smile because it happened.

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to read more

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

To banish cares, scare away sorrow and soothe pain is the business of the poet and singer.

To banish cares, scare away sorrow and soothe pain is the business of the poet and singer.

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness