"This pleasure comes precisely from the sharpest..." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.”

“By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.”

“Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.”

“The new life created by the final integration is self-aware yet without ego, capable of inhabiting a body yet not attached to it, and guided by wisdom rather than emotion. Whole and virtuous, it can never die.”

“We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have no regrets.”

“I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.”

“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”

“My soul bleeds and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole.”

“Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property.”