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

We're all special cases.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.

Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law.

If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and fury of acompletely irrational history or to endow history with the form of human reason.

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