Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.

Human vitality is so exuberant that in the sorriest desert it still finds a pretext for glowing and trembling.

The struggle with the past is not a hand-to-hand fight. The future overcomes it by swallowing it. If it leaves anything outside it is lost.

To learn English you must begin by thrusting the jaw forward, almost clenching the teeth, and practically immbilizing the lips. In this way the English produce the series of unpleasant little mews of which their language consists.

Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence.

There is no doubt; even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.