There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

They hurt each other without wanting to, just because each represented to the others the cruel and demanding necessity of their lives.

In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.

You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind. You're judging yourself now, Mersaut, and you don't like the sentence.

I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored