I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.

Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.

Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.

Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.