Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
I won't give up the diary again. I must hold on here, it is the only place I can.
Religions get lost as people do.
Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.
And so gentlemen, I learned. Oh, if you have to learn, you learn; if you’re desperate for a way out, you learn; you learn pitilessly. You stand over yourself with a whip in your hand; if there’s the least resistance, you lash yourself.
Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.