A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
Speech is civilization itself... It is silence which isolates.
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes — who meet and observe each other daily, even hourly and who keep up the impression of disinterest either because of morals or because of a mental abnormality. Between them there is listlessness and pent-up curiosity, the hysteria of an unsatisfied, unnaturally suppressed need for communion and also a kind of tense respect. Because man loves and honors man as long as he is not able to judge him, and desire is a product of lacking knowledge.