The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

Find your happiness in yourself.

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

Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.

The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death.

Suffering gives us no special rights.

There was a time when I didn’t at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes, one can wage war in this world, ape love, torture one’s fellow man, or merely say evil of one’s neighbour while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.