The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.

We all appear as dunces when feigning an interest in things we care nothing about.

She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.

Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.

Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.

I became my own only when I gave myself to Another.

Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.