Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.

Pain was a fascinating horror

Somewhere in the rain, there will always be an abandoned dog that prevents you from being happy.

Every gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted. The luminous ceiling toward which we raise our longing eyes becomes, when we have climbed to the next floor, a stretch of disregarded linoleum beneath our feet.

No social stability without individual stability.