People knew less of each other, perhaps, but they felt more free of each other, and so were more individual. The entire world was not for them only a push or a switch away. Strangers were strange, and sometimes with an exciting, beautiful strangeness. It may be better for humanity that we should communicate more and more.

We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.

Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.

Our knowledge of what the richer than ourselves possess, and the poor do not, has never been more widespread. Therefore, envy, which is wanting what others have, and jealousy, which is not wanting others to have what one has, have never been more widespread.

The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?

Ask me to marry you." "Will you marry me?" "No.

Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art.