In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.

Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to me!!'

I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.

Liberty is dangerous.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.