“They deserved nothing less than the truth--a vacant universe and a cooling world, the right to be happy in any way they chose.”

“The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.”

“We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.”

“From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year...death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever.”

“You are all alike, you people. You never learn the truth--that God knows nothing.”

“So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.”

“Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn't being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love--it's being unhappy together.”