I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently.

Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Marxism is not scientific: at the best, it has scientific prejudices.

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.

The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture.