... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is easy for me to kill, that is because it is difficult for me to die.

The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.

The important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think.

In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.

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

... here, where the gaze is stopped everywhere, the whole earth is designed so that the face turns upward and the gaze implores. Oh! I hate this world where we are reduced to God.

Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.