What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.

After awhile you could get used to anything.

That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3

One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.

But it's not easy. I've been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood. But people don't love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me, only I couldn't.

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.