“I'm in prison because I'm a free man, because I found it necessary to exercise my freedom, because I accepted this necessity.”

“Ich hatte mit aller Macht meines schnell zirkulierenden Blutes gespürt, dass mein Tod diesen Baum nicht seiner strahlenden Schönheit berauben würde, dass er die Welt nur meines Blickes berauben würde. (I had felt with the might of my fast circulating blood that my death would not rob this tree of its irradiant beauty, it would only rob the world of my gaze.)”

“Il y a cet entassement des corps dans le wagon cette lancinante douleur dans le genou droit. Les jours les nuits. Je fais un effort et j'essaye de compter les jours de compter les nuits. Ca m'aidera peut-être à y voir clair. Quatre jours cinq nuits. Mais j'ai dû mal compter ou alors il y a des jours qui se sont changés en nuits. J'ai des nuits en trop des nuits à revendre.”

“Why do you seem so annoyed at what I'm saying?""Because we're too much like each other. I loathe your face, which is a caricature of mine, I loathe your voice, which is a mockery of mine, I loathe your pathetic syntax, which is my own.”

“We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.”

“The day I die, it won’t be because gravity knocked me on my back so much as it will be that I could no longer stand up to life.”

“Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity. ”