Martyrs, cher ami, must choose between being forgotten, mocked, or made use of. As for being understood – never!
In order to cease being a doubtful case, one has to cease being, that’s all.
I’ll tell you a big secret mon cher. Don’t wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.
God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow-men suffice, aided by ourselves.
Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn’t desire is the hardest thing in the world.
At the end of all freedom is a court-sentence; that’s why freedom is too heavy to bear, especially when you’re down with a fever, or are distressed, or love nobody.
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
Above all, don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be sincere with them.
