Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

Happiness too is inevitable.

So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.

Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.

Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying ourselves. Not enough cynicism and not enough virtue.