Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.

The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war.

You must have a love, a great love, to ensure an alibi at unjustified despairs that conquer all of us

Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it.

There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction.