God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.

Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.

Most men are like me. They cannot live in a universe where the most bizarre thought can in one second enter into the realm of reality--where, most often, it does enter, like a knife in a heart.

I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself.

It should be pointed out for our own guidance in the West that the continual signing of manifestoes and protests is one of the surest ways of undermining the efficacy and dignity of the intellectual. There exists a permanent blackmail that we all know and that we must have the often solitary courage to resist.