A régime [Nazism] which invented a biological foreign policy was obviously acting against its own best interests. But at least it obeyed its own particular logic.

I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style.