You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.

In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.

Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody thinks about changing himself.

Morning or night, Friday or Sunday, made no difference, everything was the same: the gnawing, excruciating, incessant pain; that awareness of life irrevocably passing but not yet gone; that dreadful, loathsome death, the only reality, relentlessly closing in on him; and that same endless lie. What did days, weeks, or hours matter?

The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.

He liked to fish; he seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.