Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.

I don't need money, or, better, it's not money that I need; it's not even power; I need only what is obtained by power and simply cannot be obtained without power: the solitary and calm awareness of strength! That is the fullest definition of freedom, which the world so struggles over!

Every member of the society spies on the rest, and it is his duty to inform against them. All are slaves and equal in their slavery... The great thing about it is equality... Slaves are bound to be equal.

It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated.