“We are all special cases.”

“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.”

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

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

“In any case, the one man paved the way for the deeds of the other, in a sense foreshadowed and even legitimized by them.”

“What we call fundamental truths are simply the ones we discover after all the others.”

“But in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The seas, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death--these are things that unite us all. We resemble one another in what we see together, in what we suffer together. Dreams change from individual, but the reality of the world is common to us all. Striving towards realism is therefore legitimate, for it is basically related to the artistic adventure.”