I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
To try to be better is to be better.