“Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.”

“L'ordre est le plaisir de la raison; mais le désordre est le délice de l'imagination”

“...In the end, there's no sort of difference between dying from ignorance and dying under the feet of thousands of men who have regained their freedom. You close your eyes, and then there's nothing anymore. And death is never difficult. It requires neither a hero nor a slave. It eats what it's served.”

“Saintliness is very odd. When people encounter it, they often take it for something else, something completely unlike it: indifference, mockery, scheming, coldness, insolence, perhaps even contempt. But they're mistaken, and that makes them furious. They commit an awful crime. This is doubtless the reason why most saints end up as martyrs.”

“...faziam parte da mesma classe social, a dos bem-nascidos, criados em berço de ouro, das viaturas motorizadas, dos lambris e das baixelas. Para lá dos factos e das simpatias, mais alto do que as leis ditadas pelos homens, está esta conivência e esta troca de galhardetes: “Não te metas comigo que eu pagar-te-ei na mesma moeda.” Quem pensar que um dos seus pode ser um assassino, está a admitir que ele próprio o pode ser. É confessar perante toda a gente que aqueles que falam com trejeitos de boca e nos olham do alto, como se fôssemos excrementos de galinha, que têm uma alma torpe como os outros homens, são de facto como todos os homens. E isso talvez seja o fim do mundo, o fim do seu mundo. É portanto insuportável.”

“It's always been difficult for me to speak and express my innermost thoughts. I prefer to write. When I sit down and write, words grow very docile, they come and feed out of my hand like little birds, and I can do almost what I want with them; whereas when I try to marshal them in open air, they fly away from me.”

“Why did I, like thousands of others, have to carry a cross I hadn't chosen, a cross which was not made for my shoulders and which didn't concern me? Who decided to come rummaging around in my obscure existence, invade my gray anonymity, my meager tranquility, and bowl me like a little ball in a great game of skittles? God? Well, in that case, if He exists, if He really exists, let Him hide His face. Let Him put His two hands on His head, and let Him bow down. It may be, as Peiper used to teach us, that many men are unworthy of Him, but now I know that He, too, is unworthy of most of us, and that if the creature is capable of producing horror, it's solely because his Creator has slipped him the recipe for it.”