Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.

Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.

Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.