The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.

Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.

All healthy men have thought of their own suicide

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me.

Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.