The viable jewels of life remain untouched when man forgets his vocation of searching for the truth of his existence.

Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods can do nothing against that man.

Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.

Several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity.

I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers? Come on; they already had death in them: at most you simply hastened things a little.

Everything in my past, in my training, everything that has been most essential in my activity up to now has made me above all a man who writes, and it is too late for that to change.

What is not possible is not to choose.