"People don't love each other at our age —they please each other, that's all. Later on when you're old and impotent, you can love somebody. At our age, you just think you do. That's all it is.”

“I am in chains. Don't touch my chains.”

"To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But, then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer, to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love, to be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy, therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness."

"He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.”

"Animals have no unconscious, because they have a territory. Men have only had an unconscious since they lost a territory.”

"It is horrible to think that the world could one day be filled with nothing but those little cogs, little men clinging to little jobs and striving towards bigger one."

“...specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.”