“For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment’s human suffering.”

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.

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.