To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.

None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.

Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.

Liberty is the right not to lie.

In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.

Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.

We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.