All in all, death is something like marriage.

They came from the four corners of the earth, driven by hunger, plague, tumors, and the cold, and stopped here. They couldn’t go any futrther because of the ocean. That’s France, that’s the French people.

Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself

I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.

History doesn't pass the dishes again.

Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.

My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.