Don't let them tell us stories.

It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.

Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future.

You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind. You're judging yourself now, Mersaut, and you don't like the sentence.

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.