Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.

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

More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.

After all, I do not have so many ways of proving that I am free. We is always free at the expense of someone else. It is a bother,but it is normal.

The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.

There was the same dazzling red glare. The sea gasped for air with each shallow, stifled wave that broke on the sand. ...with every blade of light that flashed off the sand, from a bleached shell or a peice of broken glass, my jaws tightened. I walked for a long time.

Old married people look so much alike that they have the same number of hairs in their ears.