All who, while unable to be saints but refusing to bow down to pestilences, strive their utmost to be healers.

They were assured, of course, of the inerrable equality of death, but nobody wanted that kind of equality.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

He belongs to time, and by the horror that seizes him, he recognizes his worst enemy.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

The evil in the world comes almost always from ignorance,and goodwill can cause as much damage as ill-will if it is not enlightened.

A man's rule of conduct and his scale of values have no meaning except through the quantity and variety of experiences he has been in a position to accumulate.

Even the sea had lost its deep blue colour and, beneath the misty sky, took on the sheen of silver or iron, making it painful to look at.

To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them. Being aware of one's life, one's revolt, one's freedom, and to the maximum, is living, and to the maximum.