Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.

Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.

Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?