I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd realized how all these people loathed me.

The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war.

A trial cannot be conducted by announcing the general culpability of a civilization. Only the actual deeds which, at least, stank in the nostrils of the entire world were brought to judgment.

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it