No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion, the extenuating circumstance. With me there is no giving of absolution or blessing.

The harshest winter finds an invincible summer in us.

There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.

In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.

A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.

There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.