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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.

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.

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 dream goes on without interruption, with a thread of logic the pure dream doesn't possess.

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.