- pg65: "I like cigarettes, Miss Taggart. I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke of a cigarette, thinking. I wonder what great things have come from such hours. When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind--and it is proper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette as his own expression."
- pg70: "Who cares for ecstasy nowadays?"
- pg73: "To them, the act of sex was neither joy nor sin. It meant nothing. They had heard that men and women were supposed to sleep together, so they did."
- pg116: "No one described his appearance as Latin, yet the word applied to him, not in its present, but in its original sense, not pertaining to Spain, but to ancient Rome."
- pg119: "The capacity for clouded enjoyment, she thought, does not belong to irresponsible fools; an inviolate peace of spirit is not the achievement of the drifter; to be able to laugh like that is the end result of the most profound, most solemn thinking."
- pg138: "Isn't it odd? When a politician or a movie star retires, we read front page stories about it. But when a philosopher retires, people do not even notice."
- pg170: "It's dust, lady, all of it, dust and blood. Don't believe the dreams they pump you full of, and you won't get hurt."
- pg191: "I'll give you a hint. Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong."
- pg213: "Ownership is a thing I don't share."
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