Sometimes I'm haunted by the thought that we have only one life and that we live it provisionally, waiting in vain for the day when real life will begin. And so life passes by.

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old.

Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it.

To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough.

A wrong war brings wrong; so does a right war.