The life force is vigorous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men. It makes life worth living.

Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.

Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth.

and he loved her suddenly because she loved him.

There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts.