Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.
There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.
People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society.
In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.
Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents