Sad company is bad company.
But then he told himself: What does it really mean to be useful? Today's world, just as it is, contains the sum of the utility of all people of all times. Which implies: The highest morality consists in being useless.
Children are the future, because mankind is moving more and more towards infancy.
In Tereza's eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood
A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.
Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.