Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.

Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.

The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.

God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.