With rebellion, awareness is born

A sub-clerk in the post office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. All experiences are indifferent in this regard. There are some that do either a service or a disservice to man. They do him a service if he is conscious. Otherwise, that has no importance: a man's failures imply judgment, not of circumstances, but of himself.

A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.

We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.

They hurt each other without wanting to, just because each represented to the others the cruel and demanding necessity of their lives.

Empires and churches are born under the sun of death.

For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.