Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.

Most religions do not make men better, only warier.

Almost Kien was tempted to believe in happiness, that contemptible life-goal of illiterates. If it came of itself, without being hunted for, if you did not hold it fast by force and treated it with a certain condescension, it was permissible to endure its presence for a few days

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said.

Learning is the art of ignoring.