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If one love one feared .

… don’t pity me. Pity is cruel. Pity destroys. Love isn’t safe when pity’s prowling around.

One can't love humanity. One can only love people .

The experience was as new to him as adolescent love:he had the blind passionate innocence of a boy:like a boy he was driven relentlessly towards inevitable suffering,loss and despair,and called it happiness.

The German are wonderfully thorough ,” Johns said. …. Everything forgiven and forgotten , or the Public Prosecutor. … They formed , you know , a kind of Ministry of Fear – with the most efficient under-secretaries. It isn’t only that they get a hold on certain people. It’s the general atmosphere they spread , so that you can’t depend on a soul.

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man …. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.

But it is impossible to go through life without trust; that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself .

"You say you killed for pity;why don't you have pity on yourself ?" Why not indeed ? except that it is easier to kill someone you love than to kill yourself.