What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.

Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.

it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.

There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.

you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.