_Nothing is so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
_Bore - a person who talks when you wish him to listen.
_Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful!
_An atheist is one point beyond the devil.
_The first breath is beginning of death.
_She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so more simply complicated and interesting.
_Besides Shakespeare and me, who do you think there is?
_The world is so full of simpletons and madmen that one need not seek them in a madhouse.
_Dreams - Castles in the air - They're so easy to take refuge in. So easy to build too.
_Fools are in a terrible, overwhelming majority, all the wide world over. The majority has the might - more's the pity, but it hasn't right.The minority is always right.
_What's man's first duty? The Answer's brief: To Be Himself.
_I know perfectly well that I don't want to do anything; to do something is to create existence - and there's quite enough existence as it is.
_Man is condemned to be free. Hell is other people.
_The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
_You get the impression that their normal condition is silence and that speech is a slight fever which attacks them now and then. They do that to pass the time, nothing more. But time is too large, it refuses to let itself be filled.
_"Good Old Times" - all the times when old are good are gone.
_I'll publish, right or wrong: Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
_If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? -With silence and tears.
_All Tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
_As soon as one is unhappy one becomes Moral.
_The noblest work of God? - Man. Who found it out?
_One dies only once, and it's for such a long time!
_There comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.
_Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
_The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
_The need to be right - the sign of a vulgar mind.
_One cannot be a part time nihilist.
_Don't wait for the last Judgement. It takes place every day.
_An Intelectual is someone who's mind watches itself.
_It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think that they can be happy without money.
_What is a rebel?. A man who says No.
_I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each other, to devour their infamous cookery, to gulp their unwholesome beer, to dream their insignificant and silly dreams. They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowl- edge of life was to me an irritating pretence, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces so full of stupid importance.
