Youth is above all a collection of possibilities.

I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.

A fate is not a punishment.

The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture.

O light! This the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.