"Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractiv…"

"Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it…"

"The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and th…"

"Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, evil - or else an absolute ignorance."

"'It's not really much good tearing out a page because you can see the place where it's been torn.' [...] 'You can pul…"

"To start off happy," Harris said. "It must make an awful difference afterwards. Why, it might become a habit, mightn'…"

"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage …"

"He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that it is where we really belong."

"Pity smouldered like decay at his heart. He would never rid himself of it. He knew from experience how passion died a…"

"Why [...] do I love this place so much? Is it because here human nature hasn't had time to disguise itself? Nobody he…"