That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

At times discreetly, at times disgustingly, I yielded to the most fatal temptation whenever I could no longer bear it: as a result of impatience, Orpheus lost Eurydice; as a result of impatience, I lost myself.

We do not wish to say only that a man is responsible for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for that of all men.

I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path.

it was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.

Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.