If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it
Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.
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.
In this vast country that he had so loved, he was alone.
I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd realized how all these people loathed me.