What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.

A loveless world is a dead world.

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.

It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.

We're all special cases.

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.