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

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

To understand one's world, one must sometimes turn away from it! To serve better, one must briefly hold it at a distance. Where can the necessary solitude be found, the long breathing space in which mind gathers its strength and takes stock of its courage.

Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone.

I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am.

But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent!

That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love.