The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.

In normal times all of us know, whether consciously or not, that there is no love which can't be bettered; nevertheless, we reconcile ourselves more or less easily to the fact that ours has never risen above the average.

In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.

So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

It is immoral not to tell.

Morality, when formal, devours.