Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose.

Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.

I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, Good and Bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good.

To love is never just to love since it is also to will to love, and ... to love in spite of oneself, to allow oneself to be overcome by one's love.

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

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

We do not judge the people we love.