I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.

For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers.

From Pandora's Box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most dreadful of all. I know no more stirring symbol; for, contrary to the general belief, hope equals resignation. And to live is not to resign oneself.

The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture.

I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.

What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.

Integrity has no need of rules.