it is only on posters and in advertisement pages that Americans have those chubby cheeks, expanding smiles, smooth looks, and faces flushed with well-being. In fact, almost all are at odds with themselves; drink offers a remedy for this inner malady of which boredom is the most usual sign: as drinking is accepted by society, it does not appear as a sign of their [Americans'] inability to adapt themselves; it is rather the adapted form of inadaptability.

Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.

A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own hands, an object imposed on me, an object for which the world provides the raw material and then steals it from me again, pulverized by events, scattered, broken, scored yet retaining its unity; how heavy it is and how inconsistent: this contradiction breeds many misunderstandings.

...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.