It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

After awhile you could get used to anything.

Life is the sum of your choices.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.

There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.