Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a whole part of their life and their so called 'vital interests.

If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us.

And then came human beings; humans wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to.

Every writer, big or small, needs to say or write that the genius is always hissed at by his contemporaries. Naturally, this is not true, it happens only occasionally and often by chance. But this need within the writer is enlightening.

We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.

Rule: Start by looking for what is valid in every man.

Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.