If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given to us fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth.

When the body is sad, the heart languishes.

When there is no hope, one must invent hope.

At the age of 40, having ordered meat very rare in restaurants all his life, he realized he actually liked it medium and not at all rare.

I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.

Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.