Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown.

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

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

There emanates from superlatives a destructive force.