He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

Life is but a continual succession of opportunities for surviving.

Freedom is often the first casualty of war.

Children's lies are signs of great talent.

Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies.

Nobody teaches life anything.

You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.