From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.

There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one's mind and alter one's whole attitude to life, books that one dips into but never reads through, books that one reads at a single sitting and forgets a week later.

Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.

Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop.

The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists.