What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.

Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.