So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

In a few years, no doubt, marriage licences will be sold like dog licences, good for 12 months.

All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in their city; they merely inhabit it.

Most loverspicture to themselves, in their mistresses, a secret reality, beyond and different from what they see every day. They are in love with somebody else--their own invention. And sometimes there is a secret reality; and sometimes reality and appearance are the same. The discovery, in either case, is likely to cause a shock.

The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist.