The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism.

At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.

There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.

A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.