The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion.

Mon cher ami, let's not give them any pretext, no matter how small, for judging us!!! Otherwise, we'll be left in shreds. We are forced to take the same precautions as the animal trainer. If, before going into the cage, he has the misfortune to cut himself while shaving, what a feast for the wild animals!!

A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.

But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what punishment or reward attends the making of this calculation. The question is one of knowing whether two and two do make four

how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for!

The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive.