One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.

The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.

My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.

Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.

They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.

In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.

More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.