The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once‚ at least‚ the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.

The spirit of a nation is what counts-the look in its eyes.

The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once‚ at least‚ the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on earth of a great democratic institution-in fact, democracy's only success-the night.

Countries are like fruit-the worms are always inside.

Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips.