I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me.

True artists scorn nothing.

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.

What's natural is the microbe. All the rest-heath, integrity, purity (if you like)-is a product of the human will, of a vigilance that must never falter. The good man, the man who infects hardly anyone, is the man who has the fewest lapses of attention.

Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.

Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.

Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is the affirmation of a nature common to all men, which eludes the world of power.