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

Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.

To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a little luck.

Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their climate.

I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else.

In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.