When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn't inside us can't excite us.

You should never be afraid of people... such fear can destroy us completely. You've simply got to get rid of it, if you want to turn into someone decent. You understand that, don't you?

our friendship has no other purpose, no other reason, than to show you how utterly unlike me you are.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.

There is no reality except the one contained within us.

How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.