The great powers are always searching for opportunities to gain power at the expense of rivals, and to dominate the system.

I'm not a person who likes to be behind.

I always try to stay true to myself and my emotions, and that's the only way I know how to make music.

The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel is the one bright book of life.

人们如此沉迷于我的痛苦，但他们追随我是为了看我失败。

The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country.