Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments."

[On Water]

Je voudrais arrêter le temps, arrêter l'heure. Mais elle va, elle va, elle passe, elle me prend de seconde en seconde un peu de moi pour le néant de demain. Et je ne revivrai jamais.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

Revolts, republics, revolutions, most/ No graver than a schoolboy's barring out.

Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck."

[On Water]