How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.

No papers, no money; no family, no friends, no sense of who you are. The obscurest of the obscure, so obscure as to be a prodigy.

The palpable obscure.

It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure.

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honour as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.