Where there is no hope, we must invent it.

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.

An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.