Once they have slept together they will have to find something else to veil the enormous absurdity of their existence. - Jean-Paul Sartre

Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel.

You complain
because things don't arrange themselves around you like a bouquet of flowers, without your taking the
slightest trouble to do anything. But I have never asked as much: I wanted action. You know, when we
played adventurer and adventuress: you were the one who had adventures, I was the one who made
them happen.

What do you want to do with the [Communist] Party? A racing stable? What good is it to sharpen a knife every day if you never use it for slicing? A party is never more than a means. There is only one objective: power.