I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.

I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

Because we can imagine, we are free.

I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me.

Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.