An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. Histoire d'un crime
“All writing seems futile to me, and it really is. The best would probably be for me to go to Vienna and take you away; I may even do it, although you don’t want me to.” (9 July 1920) Letters To Milena
Let no act be done at haphazard, nor otherwise than according to the finished rules that govern its kind. Book IV
And now that the hour of departure is appointed to me, this is the hope with which I depart, and not I only, but every man that believes that he has his mind purified. The Trials Of Socrates
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