It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood.

I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.

Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.

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.

I consider Les Nourritures Terrestres as a frightening book: "Look for God in no other place than everywhere." Go and tell that to a workman, an engineer!

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

The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question.