I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention.

Everyone has, inside himself ... what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is ... a very great, very important character.

When you want to believe in something you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.

Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.

Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.

Behind everything we feel, there is always a sense of fear.

We wander but in the end there is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely The condemned man has that joy

Is not man himself the most unsettled of all the creatures of the earth? What is this trembling sensation that is intensified with each ascending step in the natural order?

It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.