Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all.

Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.

Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.