There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.

Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style.

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.

It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other.

The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.

Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.