Suffering gives us no special rights.

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

Those who love, friends and lovers, know that love is not only a blinding flash, but also a long and painful struggle in the darkness for the realization of definitive recognition and reconciliation.

You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.

…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency.

Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.