We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.

Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him from all social pressure is to abandon him to himself and demoralize him.

Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.

One does not advance when one walks toward no goal, or - which is the same thing - when his goal is infinity.

Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc.

When there is no other aim but to outstrip constantly the point arrived at, how painful to be thrown back!...Since imagination is hungry for novelty, and ungoverned, it gropes at random

Crime brings together honest men and concentrates them.

It seems very strange that one must turn back, and be transported to the very beginnings of history, in order to arrive at an understanding of humanity as it is at present.

Let others scream, because ultimately you know your story

If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.

Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.

What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?

Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.

The great truth is that women actually like men, and men can never believe it.

The sad ending is only because the author stops telling the story. But it still goes on. It's just untold.

A woman with a mind, a body with a soul. A heart full of love, that won't let go.

In the life of husband and wife together, fatherhood and motherhood represent such a sublime "novelty" and richness as can only be approached "on one's knees".