It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.

That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.

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

Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.

My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world.

We can sometimes recognize the looks of a century ago on a modern face; but never those of a century to come.

I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness, to death.