"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."

"I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, not only important but right. He was a man of his time, and he had the defects of his time, as well as the virtues."

"It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I find, in this life, I am not made for it."

"Sometimes I don't know whether I'm a god or a devil. Sometimes I don't know whether I'm a saint or a sinner."

"Forgive me for my grandiosity, and for my occasional bursts of self-pity."