What's done at night belongs to the night. In the daytime you don't talk about it.
Heroism is not to be won at the point of a pen.
What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there.
For common minds have an ugly ability to perceive in the deepest and richest saying nothing but their own everyday opinion.
Existence precedes and rules essence.
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.