Something begins in order to end: an adventure doesn't let itself be extended it achieves significance only through its death.

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.

So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price for it.

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

A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.

Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?

Heroism is not to be won at the point of a pen.