Among the wealthy, generosity is often merely a kind of shyness.

People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.

Annoyance is a physical malady that is in no way cured just because the annoying situation that causes it is eliminated.

In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.

Beware of spitting against the wind!

The hour-hand of life.

I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an obvious and crass solution; a solution which is a sheer indelicacy to us thinkers - at bottom He is really nothing but a coarse commandment against us: ye shall not think!