A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.

[Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic.

We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.

The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war.

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.

... man has an idea of a better world than this. But better does not mean different, it means unified... Religion or crime, every human endeavor in fact, finally obeys this unreasonabledesire and claims to give life a form it does not have.

On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.