I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing - Guy de Maupassant

L'angoisse de l'attente faisait désirer la venue de l'ennemi.

Entre pauvres gens, faut bien qu'on s'aide ... C'est les grands qui font la guerre.

"He had never regarded other men as anything but puppets of a sort, created to fill up an empty world. He divided them into two classes: those he greeted because some chance had put him in contact with them, and those he did not greet. But both these categories of individuals were equally insignificant in his eyes.

("An Old Man")"