One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.

Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel.

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act.

it was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.

I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me.

He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was so complete, beneath a lovely sky as mellow and serene as a good conscience, amid that busy throng, that he was amazed at his own existence; he must be somebody else's nightmare, and whoever it was would certainly awaken soon.