I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.

When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though a war may well be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.

The harshest winter finds an invincible summer in us.

But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent!

I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.