Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

No ends, simply means.

Integrity has no need of rules.

One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.

There is always a certain hour of the day and of the night when a man’s courage is at its lowest ebb, and it was that hour only that he feared.

It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still. For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration.