If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy.

[Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic.

I have no friends, I only have accomplices now. On the other hand, my accomplices are more numerous than my friends: they are the human race.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

…. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth.

Freedom is the right to never have to lie.

To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.