To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all.

You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe

It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.