Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.

A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.

Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.

Conscience is God present in man.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.