And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.

All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.

The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.

I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.

You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.