Every human endeavor, however singular it seems, involves the whole human race.
I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
I have seen children dying of hunger. Over against a dying child La Nausee cannot act as a counterweight.