« For him this cursed country has been walking for far too long without its soul, without only knowing where, without understanding its agony. And every year that passed seemed to sink him into a more complete and successful death. He had never felt able to fight. Wasn't he ready to let himself be torched to keep pretending to live? He thought that the slave dream would be the last and strongest of all dreams. It was also his own and he had never had the courage to give it up. "I'm just the art of talking about unfortunate ideas," he told the madman who asked him for solutions. His lucidity was a burden and his world much darker than uncertainty. He barely informed himself, that is, to frighten himself, to hurt himself, to express his hatred methodically, to contaminate his surroundings. To be the dread of awakening, coming right after the dream. The key to the closet where Bluebeard locked his women's corpses. He would have wanted as a child, first to instill a little of this evil, and leave on the other side of his grave as a suspicious luggage, a parcel booby-trapped, a last shard of Man. »

« You've abdicated all your freedoms for a little comfort and security. Bondage in exchange for some certainties. (page 422) »

« Who are the criminals? Are they predisposed people? Individually, high testosterone and low serotonin levels are heritable and correlated with violence. The influence of high testosterone levels on violent or repeat rapists has been pointed out by several studies (Rada, Laws »