Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing.
The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.
All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.
We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.
The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.