No, evidently habit means a lot. The devil knows what habit can do to a person.

Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.

I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.

I don’t understand anything...and I no longer want to understand anything. I want to stick to the fact...If I wanted to understand something, I would immediately have to betray the fact, but I’ve made up my mind to stick to the fact.

A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

- What is a Socialist? - That's when all are equal and all have property in common, there are no marriages, and everyone has any religion and laws he likes best. You are not old enough to understand that yet.