It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

Self-expression is a hard and selfish thing. It eats everything, even the self. At the end you find you haven't even got a self to express.

I could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh yes, people always, everywhere, loved their enemies. It was their friends they preserved for pain and vacuity.

The problem of pretending to be alive.

Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.

We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.