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I feel very troubled in the head and heart.

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

I only knew about daily life. It was said, well, it isn't everybody's daily life. That is why I started.

From the earliest wars of men to our last heart-breaking worldwide effort, all we could do was kill ourselves. Now we are able to kill the future.

The English don't go in for imagination: imagination is considered to be improper if not downright alarmist.

People miss a great deal by being sensible.

He had no other life and no other knowledge; he knew that he could not live anywhere now because in his mind, slyly, there was nothing but horror.

I used to write letters to the wounded in the Palace Hotel, and I used to drive a station wagon with blood in bottles to a battalion aid station.

I took only one suitcase, and a cosmetics case for medicines but I was worried about books. Solitude is all right with books, awful without.

Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed.

I didn't write. I just wandered about.

If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it ... seemed a defeat.

The ends never justify the means because IT never ends.

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.

I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents.

And this urge to run away from what I love is a sort of sadism I no longer pretend to understand.

My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.

Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders.

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

The English are very proud of their Parliament, and week in, week out, century after century, they have pretty good cause to be.

I love you. Have a hell of a good time. I don't really know what else is worth having.

There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on.

You have to stop living in order to write.

The private conscience is the last and only protection of the civilized world.

I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else's life.

Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.

By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first.

In November you begin to know how long the winter will be.

What gave these krauts a right to say who should be born and who shouldn't, and who could live and be let alone, and who would get caught and killed?

The world's fat is badly divided.

I followed the war wherever I could reach it.

Our hearts are light and gay because now its happening, we're starting, we're travelling again.

Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.

In the end, in England, when you want to find out how people are feeling, you always go to the pubs.

After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory.

travel is compost for the mind

I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began.

Politics really must be a rotten profession considering what awful moral cowards most politicians become as soon as they get the job.

I'm not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future, or any future.

[On Paris:] I do not know any city so beautiful and you can be unhappy there and notice your unhappiness less, having the city to look at.

Once you get a tyranny, you don't easily get rid of it. Much better to remember about eternal vigilance.

All politicians are bores and liars and fakes. I talk to people.

Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

But the soul concerns me; and I am beginning to wonder whether it is wise or useful to spend so much time searching for one's own.

Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it

Italy was about churches, Greece it's ruins; but Israel was about surviving and about feeling glad.