In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick; one could slip and fall.

It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.

Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.

In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.

Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.

Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.

On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.