The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas.

The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.

A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.

It made you feel very small, very lost, and yet it was not altogether depressing, that feeling. After all, if you were small, the grimy beetle crawled on - which was just what you wanted it to do.

The sea never changes and its works, for all the talks of men, are wrapped in mystery.

You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And least of all can you condemn an artist pursuing, however humbly and imperfectly, a creative aim. In that interior world where his thought and his emotions go seeking for the experience of imagined adventures, there are no policemen, no law, no pressure of circumstance or dread of opinion to keep him within bounds. Who then is going to say Nay to his temptations if not his conscience?

The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.