Commit no act that is contrary to love.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness. She says and does horrid things, and you see only charm. And if a handsome woman does not say stupid or horrid things, you at once persuade yourself that she is wonderfully clever and moral.

the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982

Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.

I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.