If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.

Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it.

Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.

Every writer, big or small, needs to say or write that the genius is always hissed at by his contemporaries. Naturally, this is not true, it happens only occasionally and often by chance. But this need within the writer is enlightening.

On good days, if you trust life, life has to answer you.

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.