I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else.

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

I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.

Liberty is dangerous.

It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith, be condemned. But also its guilt must be understood.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.