We have art in order not to die of life.

Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality.

Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland

Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all.

What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where people possess one another completely, and where life assumes the aspect of destiny?

I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate.

Absurd- that is the light mind that establishes its own borders.