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.

Liberty is the right not to lie.

What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.

I love life - that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.

One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.

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.

The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.