I had no intention of anyone ever finding out what I had done.

Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.

I will receive from them not what they have but what they are.

I know what I have given you, I do not know what you have received.

From all I did and all I said let no one try to find out who I was.

I will relinquish my possession of this self of mine, abdicate, give over willingly what I never wanted at all; whatever it wants of me it can have.

Don't tell me what I'm doing; I don't want to know.

If ever I do escape, no one shall reproach me with having broken or violated my faith, not having given my word to any one, whosoever it may be.

I don't need anybody's permission to be remembered. I will be. Whether they like it or not.

Je donnerais tout ce que je sais pour la moitié de ce que je ne sais pas.

The Congo Free State is unique in its kind. It has nothing to hide and no secrets and is not beholden to anyone except its founder.

My prison will be my grave before I budge a jot, for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

You can take my freedom, even my life, but not my thought, not my truth, not my contribution to the history of the people to which I belong.

I don't give a fuck if they remember me at all.