Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all.

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

My dear friend, we mustn't give them even the slightest excuse to judge us! Otherwise, we end up in pieces.

When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.