To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent!

In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.

[Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.