“We are rarely proud when we are alone.”
“The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.”
“We do not trust educated people and rarely, alas, produce them, for we do not trust the independence of mind which alone makes a genuine education possible.”
“Men like us are good and proud and strong...if we had a faith, a God, nothing could undermine us. But we had nothing, we had to learn everything, and living for honor alone has its weaknesses...”
“When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.”
“When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, wither do we turn? To the murder column; and there we are rarely disappointed.”