The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.

but their eyes were as cold blue glass buttons.

Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom.

If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty.

Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims.

Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that 'to feel' is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality.

An emotion as much tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something.