But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.

I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one

Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.

Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland

To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.

At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary.

I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd realized how all these people loathed me.