…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency.

Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is the affirmation of a nature common to all men, which eludes the world of power.

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is easy for me to kill, that is because it is difficult for me to die.

I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself.

A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.