The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.

God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.

Powerful, yes, that is the word that I constantly rolled on my tongue, I dreamed of absolute power, the kind that forces others tokneel, that forces the enemy to capitulate, finally converting him, and the more the enemy is blind, cruel, sure of himself, buried in his conviction, the more his admission proclaims the royalty of he who has brought on his defeat.

Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")

My dear friend, we mustn't give them even the slightest excuse to judge us! Otherwise, we end up in pieces.

A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.

And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.