Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming to him, who rejoices in counting on himself alone and in acting alone for the good of all.

Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing.

Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!

Life begins on the other side of despair.

I have seen children dying of hunger. Over against a dying child La Nausee cannot act as a counterweight.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.