“as long as you are alive your case is doubtful”

“Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.”

“In order to cease being a doubtful case, one has to cease being, that's all.”

“I hadn't grasped how days could be at once long and short. Long, no doubt, as periods to live through, but so distended that they ended up by overlapping on each other. In fact, I never thought of days as such; only the words 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' still kept some meaning.”

“Doubts are the innermost corner of our souls. One must not talk about his doubts, whatever they may be.”

“We are all special cases.”

“We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.”