All that remains is the mad desire for present identity through a woman.

We know that every person who is loved feels transformed, unfolded, and he unfolds everything, the most intimate as well as the most familiar, to the one who loves him as well as to himself.... The person one loves is as ungraspable as the universe, as God's infinite space, he is boundless, full of possibilities, full of secrets.

In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.

I live, like every real man, in my work.

Stillertook part in the Spanish Civil WarIt is not clear what impelled him to this military gesture. Probably many factors were combined--a rather romantic Communism, such as was common among bourgeois intellectuals at that time.

I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate.

Our comparative fidelity was fear of defeat at the hands of another partner.