It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.

If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy.

I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.

A fate is not a punishment.

The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war.

For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men.