It seems, after all that there are no nonpeculiar people.
All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing.
... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.
De Tocqueville considered the impulse toward well-being as one of the strongest impulses of a democratic society. He can't be blamed for underestimating the destructive powers generated by this same impulse.
A man is only as good as what he loves.