Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.

A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.

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.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Although it was the middle of winter, I finally realized that, within me, summer was inextinguishable.

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