To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a little luck.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love.

Knowing what [Christ] knew , knowing all about mankind--ah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make others die, but to die oneself--confronted day and night with his innocent crime, it became too difficult to go on. It was better to get it over with, to not defend himself, to die, in order not to be the only one to have survived, and to go elsewhere, where, perhaps, he would be supported.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.

An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.