We're going forward, but nothing changes.

A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.

Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland

They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose.

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

Art does not tolerate reason.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.