The will to be oneself is heroism

And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself to be on firm ground.

Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility.

Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul.

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.

It is not obligatory for a generation to have great men.

These are the only genuine ideas, the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.