At one time or another all normal people have wished their loved ones were dead.

How do you put everyone in the pool, so you have the right to dry yourself in the sun?

Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.

It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this, doubtless, which explains why so many, the world over, feel the Spanish drama as a personal tragedy.

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

All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world.

After a short silence the doctor raised himself a little in his chair and asked if Tarrou had an idea of the path to follow for attaining peace. "Yes, he replied. "The path of sympathy.