That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3

Fate is not in man but around him

Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.

We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.

No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.

Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their climate.

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.