Army life don't agree with me.
I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour.
Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave.
The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth.
It is useless to send armies against ideas.
School is a foretaste of life.
When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance.
Eloquence is a way of saying things in such a way, first, that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain and with pleasure, and second, that they feel themselves interested, so that self-love leads them more willingly to reflection upon it.
I am not sure one is capable of reflecting absurdity without having a strong sense of meaning. Absurdity makes sense only against a meaningful background. It is the deeper meaning that is shedding light on the absurdity. There must be a vanish point, a metaphysical horizon if you will where absurdity and meaning merge.
To say that an author is a reader or a reader an author, to see a book as a human being or a human being a book, to describe the world as text or a text as the world, are ways of naming the readers craft.
The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led.