Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand this fatal game that leads from lucidity in the face of existence to flight from light.

... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.

Life is a sum of all your choices". So, what are you doing today?

A régime [Nazism] which invented a biological foreign policy was obviously acting against its own best interests. But at least it obeyed its own particular logic.

There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.

I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another.

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.