Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.

One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.

No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture.

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression of a colorless swirling river that was making me dizzy.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.