When she is alone in the rooms I hear her humming to keep herself from thinking.

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.

To choose not to choose is still to act.

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

At that time [1954], as a result of political events, I was deeply preoccupied by my relations with the Communist Party.

A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.

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