I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily

Every invalid is a prisoner.

A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny.

I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily

the press is too often a distorting mirror, which deforms the people and events it represents, making them seem bigger or smaller than they really are.

When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by the other; regard them as two different facets, or two successive stages, of the same reality, a reality convincingly human just because it is too complex.

Cruelty is the luxury of those who have nothing to do, like drugs or racing stables.