And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.

If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction.

None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.

What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country, we are seized by a vague fear and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. I look upon it more as an occasion for testing.

It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.

To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?

Some are created to love, while the others - to live.