In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.

I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys.

Poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. Of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what leads them at times to be poor and enslaved.

Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd

“To think the way you do,” he said smiling, “you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope.” “On both, perhaps.”

But too many people now climb onto the cross merely to be seen from a greater distance, even if they have to trample somewhat on the one who has been there so long.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.