Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.

I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.

Give up the tyranny of female charm.

Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.

For what gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. Travel robs us of such refuge. Far from our own people, our own language, stripped of all our props, deprived of our masks (one doesn't know the fare on the streetcars, or anything else), we are completely on the surface of ourselves.

May heaven protect us, cher monsieur, from being set on a pedestal by our friends!!!

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.