Loving someone is different from being in love with someone. You can hate someone you're in love with

I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely was, the greatest nastiness precisely lay in my being shamefully conscious every moment, even in moments of the greatest bile, that I was not only not a wicked man but was not even an embittered man, that I was simply frightening sparrows in vain, and pleasing myself with it.

Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.

I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He is made and constructed to that very end. And not only at the present time owing to some casual circumstance, but always, at all times, a decent man is bound to be a coward and a slave.

It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.