I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.

History is at once freedom and necessity.

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters

This is really the common mentality of prisoners: they read with great attention all the articles that deal with illnesses and send away for treatises and "be your own doctor" or "emergency treatments" and end up by discovering that they have at least 300 or 400 illnesses, whose symptoms they are experiencing.

All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.