...so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.

Perhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think about than what one should think about.

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

Morning or night, Friday or Sunday, made no difference, everything was the same: the gnawing, excruciating, incessant pain; that awareness of life irrevocably passing but not yet gone; that dreadful, loathsome death, the only reality, relentlessly closing in on him; and that same endless lie. What did days, weeks, or hours matter?

There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

It is no sin to look at a nice girl.

Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible.