Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replace normal religious practice by more or less extravagant superstitions.

True artists scorn nothing.

In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.

Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland

Do not be surprised. I do not like writers and I cannot stand their lies. They speak so as not to listen to themselves speak. If they did listen, they would know that they are nothing and then they would no longer be able to speak.

Suffering gives us no special rights.