If man has one good memory to go by, that may be enough to save him.

To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.

You must accept it as it is, and hence accept all consequences. A wall is indeed a wall.

That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.

Even if we are occupied with important things and even if we attain honour or fall into misfortune, still let us remember how good it once was here, when we were all together united by a good and kind feeling which made us perhaps better than we are.

Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass.

I wanted to fathom her secrets; I wanted her to come to me and say: "I love you," and if not that, if that was senseless insanity, then...well, what was there to care about? Did I know what I wanted? I was like one demented: all I wanted was to be near her, in the halo of her glory, in her radiance, always, for ever, all my life. I knew nothing more!