Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and police spies. The moral health of such a people is ruined for ever; only revolution can save it.
I’ve often thought that there isn’t any I at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.
May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!
I’m a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.