Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.

The color of truth is gray.

Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.

Though a revolution may call itself "national," it always marks the victory of a single party.

Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry -- I call them the laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves alone, and don't find themselves at all. I hate this moral agoraphobia -- it's the worst kind of cowardice. You can't create something without being alone. But who's trying to create here? What seems different in yourself: that's the one rare thing you possess, the one thing which gives each of us his worth; and that's just what we try to suppress. We imitate. And we claim to love life.

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death

With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.