Give up the tyranny of female charm.
Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all.
The current motto for all of us can only be this: without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yield nothing on the plane of freedom.
I would rather not have upset him, but I couldn't see any reason to change my life. Looking back on it, I wasn't unhappy. When I was a student, I had lots of ambitions like that. But when I had to give up my studies I learned very quickly that none of it really mattered.
