But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams.

If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail.

The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.

I should like [people] to like the purely individual thing in themselves, which makes them act in singleness. and They only like to do the collective thing.

I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?

Anatomy presupposes a corpse; psychology presupposes a world of corpses.