To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

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

How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could truly be interested in?

To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them.

Give up the tyranny of female charm.

Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.

... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.