Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within it you could brush against appalling things and feel roaming and prowling around a strange, mysterious horror.

We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.

To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.

Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.

To lie about a far country is easy

In fact living is dying.

A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.