Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself. - Simone de Beauvoir

I hadn't known Chancel very well, but ten days earlier I had seen him laughing with the others around the Christmas tree. Maybe Robert was right; the distance between the living and the dead really isn't very great. And yet, like myself, those future corpses who were drinking their coffee in silence appeared ashamed to be so alive.

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.

If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.