how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for!

Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law.

Je puis nier une chose sans me croire obligé de la salir ou de retirer aux autres le droit d'y croire.

The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture.

But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.

On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a man.

I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.