I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

From Pandora's Box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most dreadful of all. I know no more stirring symbol; for, contrary to the general belief, hope equals resignation. And to live is not to resign oneself.

Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them Arabs. They laughed when they saw me. Then they asked what I was in for. I said I'd killed an Arab and they were all silent

Yes, everything is simple. It's people who complicate things.