Catch several hares and you won't catch one.

Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.

Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.

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.

--you wouldn't have hurt me like this for nothing. So what have I done? How have I wronged you? Tell me.

Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.

For I love the empress of my soul. I love and I cannot but love. You yourself see the whole of me. I shall fly to her, fall down before her: you were right to walk past me.. farewell and forget your victim, never trouble yourself more!