The absurd is sin without God.

In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.

Don't let them tell us stories.

I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.