Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience; which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one

It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent

Where all are guilty, no one is confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight

The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom