More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.

He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe

In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live.

When there is no hope, one must invent hope.

Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched.

History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.