Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eternal youth.

To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).

Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")

It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.

Existence is illusory and it is eternal.

If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.

Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting.