I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.

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.

Is there really nothing, nothing left of me?

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.

The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.

I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it's urgency.