I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that I finally obey.

The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.

It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.