Je puis nier une chose sans me croire obligé de la salir ou de retirer aux autres le droit d'y croire.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else.

To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a little luck.

I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.

Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.