The meanest and most hateful thing about money is that it even gives one talent.

Homeopathic doses are perhaps the strongest.

What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.

Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.

they may all be drunk at my place, but they're all honest, and though we do lie-because I lie, too-in the end we'll lie our way to the truth

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.

The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was 'sublime and beautiful,'the more deeply I sank into my mire and the more ready I was to sink in it altogether.