My dear friend, we mustn't give them even the slightest excuse to judge us! Otherwise, we end up in pieces.

Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting.

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.

At one time or another all normal people have wished their loved ones were dead.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

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

There is nothing abstract about pain. It is specific, it is real, and, when it is intense, it is world destroying.