So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.

The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

There is no frontier between being and appearing.

When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.

Fate is not in man but around him

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.