. . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism; optimists will never change the world for the better.

... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.

But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion.

Sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it separates people and they're lying next to each other, brings them together and they can barely see one another.

...we confidently say that it's not worth trying to reach any conclusions merely because we decide to stop halfway along the path that would lead us straight to them.

Chaos is order yet undeciphered.

Men are all the same, they think that because they came out of the belly of a woman they know all there is to know about women.