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.

It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood.

I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.

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

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.

But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place.

We will not go to Heaven,Goetz, and even if we both entered it, we would not have eyes to see each other, nor hands to touch each other. Up there, God gets all the attention.... We can only love on this earth and against God.