I would like to be able to breathe— to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself.

But it's not easy. I've been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood. But people don't love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me, only I couldn't.

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

I was tormented by my desire for a woman ... I thought so much about a woman, about women, about all the ones I had known, about all the circumstances in which I had enjoyed them, that my cell would be filled with their faces and crowded with my desires.