A sense of duty is like some horrible disease. It destroys the tissues of the mind, as certain complaints destroy the tissues of the body. The catechism has a great deal to answer for.
The best way of knowing someone is seeing how they behave when they're completely free of choosing.
Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our breasts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence. Violence is any day preferable to impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent.
Bad artists always admire each others work.
Our proverbs want rewriting. They were made in winter, and it is summer now.
You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage.
An effective way of fighting axienty is worrying less about yourself and more about others. When we really understand others problems, ours lose importance.
When things fall from my hands, it isn't my fault, but the thing's fault.
In the end there's always a tear, and there's someone who tore more.