The Useless Digest A Free Weekly dose of Facts, Quotes, History and more - direct to your inbox. Contrary to the unsophisticated suggestions of melodrama, to rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as of the firm seat. I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me. Liberalism is the supreme form of generosity. Life is lost at finding itself all alone.
Mere egoism is a labyrinth. . .
Really to live is to be directed towards something, to progress towards a goal. Poetry is adolescence fermented and thus preserved. Revolution is not the uprising against pre-existing order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one.