There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves.

For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live.

The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.

Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist

All men are enemies. All animals are comrades

We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.

The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment.