Mihail Sebastian, For Two Thousand Years Quotes

I've always believed that the only defeats and victories that matter in life are those you lose or win alone, against yourself.

I embraced her and she did not object at all. She let herself be kissed and kissed back, but coolly, without conviction, absently, as if she were smoking a cigarette.

A stranger sleeps next to me, like a stone beside another stone.

The abundance of beards in periods of social unrest, times of revolt or upheaval, should be noted. It's the handiest way people have of making themselves mysterious.

You will face yourself again in a moment of terror and will learn once again that old lesson you keep forgetting: that you can escape from anywhere, but you cannot flee your own self.