Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.

What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.

For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth

Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.

The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.