It is only in our decisions that we are important.

It’s the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don’t say a word, they don’t hide under the table, they eat only one piece of chocolate at a time. But later on, they make society pay dearly.

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.

I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.

A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom.

I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.

Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population.