They had to tread carefully for a lifetime, never speak without thinking twice: they must watch each other like enemies because they loved each other so much. They would never know what it was not to...
They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn’t name its price. A man open to bribes was to be relied upon below a cert...
They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people. Remove those few and a city exi...
There are dreams which belong only partly in the unconscious; these are the dreams we remember on waking so vividly that we deliberately continue them, and so fall asleep again and wake and sleep and...
The thought of retirement set his nerves twitching and straining: he always prayed that death would come first.
That was the difference, he had always known, between his faith and theirs, the political leaders of the people who cared only for things like the state, the republic: this child was more important th...
So much of war is sitting around and doing nothing, waiting for somebody else. With no guarantee of the amount of time you have left it doesn't seem worth even starting a train of thought.
So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.
Pyle could see pain when it was in front of his eyes. (I don’t write that as a sneer; there are so many of us who can’t)
People change,' she said'Oh, no they don't. Look at me. I've never changed. It's like those sticks of rock: bite it all the way down, you'll still read Brighton. That's human nature.
On pouvait être a court de nourriture dans le pays, il y avait toujours de la couleur.
Oh, and there was pride, of course. It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted.
O God, forgive me - I am a proud, lustful, greedy man. I have loved authority too much. These people are martyrs - protecting me with their own lives. They deserve a martyr to care for them - not a ma...
It's always the same wherever one goes- it's not the most powerful rulers who have the happiest populations
It was too easy to die for what was good or beautiful, for home or children or a civilization - it needed a God to die for the half-hearted and the corrupt.
It isn't. when you come to think of it a quite respectable trade, the detection of the innocent, for aren't lovers nearly always innocent? They have committed no crime, they are certain in their own m...
I was an only child. It's a great disadvantage being an only child.
I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
He was feeling happy. It was one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhiliration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse t...
He knew now that at the end there was only one thing that counted - to be a saint.