If one harbours anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, although in a sense known to be true, are inadmissible.

In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.

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.

What is not hereditary cannot be permanent.

Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English russophiles.

Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.