We belong to this earth. Now I can see the truth ... I love you on this earth of ours. Love me, do!

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom was first concealed from him and that all his life he will be nostalgic for the time when he did not know it's exigencies.

Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear, without having so much as a smile for the young future.

If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck.

Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.