Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy

Those who cannot help ought also not advise: in an order where every mousehole has been plugged, mere advice exactly equals condemnation.

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

People at the top are closing ranks so tightly that all possibility of subjective deviation has gone, and difference can be sought only in the more distinguished cut of an evening dress.

Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.