Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.

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

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one

The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

What more ghastly image can be called up than that of a man betrayed by his body who, simply because he did not die in time, lives out the comedy while awaiting the end, face to face with that God he does not adore, serving him as he served life, kneeling before a void and arms outstretched toward a heaven without eloquence that he knows to be also without depth?