“It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.”
“The real, the unique misfortune: to see the light of day. A disaster which dates back to aggressiveness, to the seed of expansion and rage within origins, to the tendency to the worst which first shook them up.”
“He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.”
“Overwhelming and astounding inequality,especially when it has an element of the unattainable, arouses far less envy than minimal inequality, which inevitably causes the envious to think: I might have been in his place.”
“The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.”
“I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.”