Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.

I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.

Poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. Of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what leads them at times to be poor and enslaved.

There are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye

I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.

One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.

On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a man.