You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

emotion is first of all and in principle an accident

It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not 'one thing in my life' - not even the most important - because my life no longer belongs to me because...you are always me.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

Man is condemned to be free