Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.

He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man.

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.

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

Life is the result of all your choices.

Old women even forget how to love their sons. The heart gets worn out, Monsieur.