History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.

I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I'd been happy. Then I fired four more times at the motionless body where the bullets lodged without leaving a trace. And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.

The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all - he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly.

Proof is never definitive, after all; one has to begin again with each new person.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty.

All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.