Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.

There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies.

I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance.

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .

There is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt.

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.