Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must then choose a master, God being out of style.

Europe has lived on its contradictions, flourished on its differences, and, constantly transcending itself thereby, has created a civilization on which the whole world depends even when rejecting it. This is why I do not believe in a Europe unified under the weight of an ideology or of a technocracy that overlooked these differences.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.