“I cannot abide useless people.”
“For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other, and forgiveness cannot be won with useless tears or alms to the Church.”
“The alleged 'sensitivity' of neurotic people is matched by their egotism; they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an ever-increasing attention in themselves.”
“Before you there lie the Steppes, my darling—only the Steppes, the naked Steppes, the Steppes that are as bare as the palm of my hand. There there live only heartless old women and rude peasants and drunkards. There the trees have already shed their leaves. There abide but rain and cold.”
“Sometimes what the heart wants, The mind cannot abide.”