If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

God is the solitude of men. There was only me: I alone decided to commit Evil; alone, I invented Good. I am the one who cheated, I am the one who performed miracles, I am the one accusing myself today, I alone can absolve myself; me, the man.

I had realized in the meantime that action too has its difficulties, and that one can also be led to it by neurosis. We are not saved by politics any more than by literature.

As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.

We do not judge the people we love.

What do you want to do with the [Communist] Party? A racing stable? What good is it to sharpen a knife every day if you never useit for slicing? A party is never more than a means. There is only one objective: power.