Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.

I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

When she is alone in the rooms I hear her humming to keep herself from thinking.

God is the solitude of men. There was only me: I alone decided to commit Evil; alone, I invented Good. I am the one who cheated, I am the one who performed miracles, I am the one accusing myself today, I alone can absolve myself; me, the man.

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.