It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.

In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone who has not made a success of his life. But on the other hand, it helps people to understand that reality alone counts, and that dreams, expectations and hopes only serve to define a man as a broken dream, aborted hopes, and futile expectations.

Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident

When I can't see myself in the mirror, I can't even feel myself, and I begin to wonder if I exist at all.

I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me, and I have followed the source of rivers towards their source or plunged into forests, always making for other cities. I have had women, I have fought with men ; and I could never turn back any more than a record can spin in reverse. And all that was leading me where ? To this very moment.

We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act.

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.