Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes

Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes

There is someone who is living my life. And I know nothing about him.

The facts are to blame, my friend. We are all imprisoned by facts: I was born, I exist.

We're like so many puppets hung on the wall, waiting for someone to come and move us or make us talk.

If you shut yourself up disdainfully in your ivory tower and insist that you have your own conscience and are satisfied with its approval, it is because you know that everybody is criticizing you, condemning you, or laughing at you.

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.