Now that I've seen what war is, what civil war is, I know that everybody, if one day it should end, ought to ask himself: "And what shall we make of ….

We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts..

The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities..

Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle cla….

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries..

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means invo….

The problem is not the harshness of Fate, for anything we want strongly enough we get. The trouble is rather that when we have it we grow sick of it,….

The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it..

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery..

Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers was to be good at doing nothing..

Why so much innuendo, draped like ivy to hide a cesspool, when everyone knew the cesspool was there?.

To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it..

A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the wor….

You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young..

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies..

Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should..

Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?.

The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish..

Men who have a tempestuous inner life and do not seek to give vent to it by talking or writing are simply men who have no tempestuous inner life. Giv….

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be..

If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse t….