“Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth”

“By giving too much importance to fine actions one may end by paying an indirect but powerful tribute to evil, because in so doing one implies that such fine actions are only valuable because they are rare, and that malice or indifference are far more common motives in the actions of men.”

“You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.”

“Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.”

“How far is one to go to elude nothing? Is one to die voluntarily or to hope in spite of everything?”

“Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.”

“Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.”