Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.

I knew a pure heart who refused tot be mistrustful.... He had written at his doorstep: "From wherever you are, enter and be welcome". Who do you think responded to this lovely invitation? The militia, who made themselves at home and gutted him.

Because,' Cormery went on, 'when I was very young, very foolish, and very much alone ... you paid attention to me and, without seeming to, you opened for me the door to everything I love in the world.

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.