Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

His own faith, however, was not lacking in virtues since it consisted in acknowledging obscurely that he would be granted much without ever deserving anything.

It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.

What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.

Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.

All healthy men have thought of their own suicide

I was tormented by my desire for a woman ... I thought so much about a woman, about women, about all the ones I had known, about all the circumstances in which I had enjoyed them, that my cell would be filled with their faces and crowded with my desires.