You confided in people, you had to.

... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.

It's not up to me ... to make the world consistent.

Unless Sammler had private thoughts to occupy him, he couldn't sit through these talks with Margotte.

Death deserves dignity.

We are supposed to do something for our kind.

The vain waste of fear.

The truth is, we've not really developed a fiction that can accommodate the full tumult, the zaniness and crazed quality of modern experience.

... reluctance to cause pain coupled with the necessity to devour ... a peculiar human trick is the result, which consists in admitting and denying evils at the same time. To have human life, and also an inhuman life ... To bite, to swallow. At the same time to pity your food.

One sees much more in a friend.