Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.

I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.

Or renounce life altogether! Accept fate obediently as it is, once and for all, and stifle everything in myself, renouncing any right to act, to live, to love.

All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels.

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

If man has one good memory to go by, that may be enough to save him.