What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?

the one who doesnt play, doesnt win anything, but he actually looses somehting, {playing}

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

... one cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my homeland, make all my loved ones happy. I see no further than this.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

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

Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone.