1. “Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.”
2. “I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.”
3. “The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn’t dictate to her.”
4. “But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.”
5. “A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
6. “The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.”
7. “I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.”
8. “Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.”
9. “Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.”
10. “Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.”
11. “We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.”
12. “Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.”
13. “The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.”
14. “One sheds one’s sickness in books – repeats and presents again one’s emotions, to be master of them.”
15. “In every living thing there is the desire for love.”
