“A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.”

We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.

I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

Live to the point of tears.

It is better to burn than to disappear.

I had only a little time left and I didn’t want to waste it on God.

But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what’s more, you’ll be a man, my son.

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn’t mean he lacks vision.

I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.

There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.

No man was ever great by imitation.

When is man strong until he feels alone?

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.

Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.