The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass for living realities, diverting into sterile myths the stubborn and lucid attention we give to what we have within us that must forever die.

Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.

It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland at the moment we are about to lose it.

Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.

Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.

Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring.

We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.