When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.
Learn this now and learn it well, my daughter: Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.
A man’s heart is a wretched, wretched thing, Mariam. It isn’t like a mother’s womb. It won’t bleed, it won’t stretch to make room for you.
No matter how good a man is, there’s always some horse can pitch him.
The measure of a man is what he does when he has power.
Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.
Everything is permissible if God does not exist, and man is consequently abandoned, for he cannot find anything to rely on – neither within nor without.
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
An honest man’s word is as good as his bond.
Therefore he gives man hope, in reality it is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.
