Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.

We are not so mad as to think that we shall create a world in which murder will not occur. We are fighting for a world in which murder will no longer be legal.

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

The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.

That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love.

Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who danced in order to die.

If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us.