At the age of 40, having ordered meat very rare in restaurants all his life, he realized he actually liked it medium and not at all rare.

The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture.

To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them.

The future is the only transcendental value for men without God.

Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.

We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.

We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so.