Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.

Proof is never definitive, after all; one has to begin again with each new person.

The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.