But [your crime] will be there, one hundred times denied, always there, dragging itself behind you. Then you will finally know that you have committed your life with one throw of the die, once and for all, and there is nothing you can do but tug our crime along until your death. Such is the law, just and unjust, of repentance. Then we will see what will become of your young pride.

Man is abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no aim but what he sets himself.

I know only one Church: it is the society of men.

I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati's.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

When one loves animals and children too much, one loves them against human beings.

The past is the luxury of proprietors.