Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined.

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

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.

Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.

If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given to us fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth.

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and the deaths of children, it alone can justify them, since we cannot understand them, and we can only make God's will ours.