Addressing his secrecy and withdrawal from friends:
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives. [Lat., Vitae poscaenia celant.]
Author: Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus)
Source: De Rerum Natura (IV, 1,182)
But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Ghost at I, v)
On isolation:
The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.
Author: Eleonora Duse
Source: None
On his comparison to alchemists:
If by fire Of sooty coal th' empiric alchymist Can turn, or holds it possible to turn, Metals of drossiest ore to perfect gold.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. V, l. 439)
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