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.

but perhaps we should love what we cannot understand

In this vast country that he had so loved, he was alone.

In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying ourselves. Not enough cynicism and not enough virtue.

A régime [Nazism] which invented a biological foreign policy was obviously acting against its own best interests. But at least it obeyed its own particular logic.

Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replace normal religious practice by more or less extravagant superstitions.

Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty.