Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion.

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

Life is the sum of your choices.

I have not stopped loving that which is sacred in this world.

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.

Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting.

All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world.