He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.

She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a battle or a struggle, in danger, and at the decisive moments of life - those moments when a man shows once and for all what he is worth, that his past was not lived in vain but was a preparation for these moments.

If you want to be happy, be happy.

We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.

Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.