We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.

An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.

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.

Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.

It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.

"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.

The world will be saved by one or two people.