Ignorance never yet helped anybody.

Assume ignorance before malevolence. No one has a direct pipeline to your wants and needs — not even you.

Human ignorance has never needed help.

No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

Talk about not knowing other people — why, when you came right down to it, you didn't even know yourself!

My self is all to me. I don't have any need of you.

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.

They eyed each other in perfect mutual incomprehension.

We ruined ourselves-I have never honestly thought that we ruined each other.

We have nothing in common except our enmity.

I never needed this I never needed anyone I meant every word that I said It's true I wasn't talking to you And I'm sorry that I must go so soon Please forgive me for finding something real and pure and true Somebody is waiting for me

I suspect you will find that no individual is ever truly crucial. Not even I — or you.

I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone.

No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else