After all, I do not have so many ways of proving that I am free. We is always free at the expense of someone else. It is a bother,but it is normal.

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

I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world.