Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.

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

Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.

Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.

Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone, very exhausting. Alone in a dreary room, alone in the dock before the judges, and alone to make up your mind, before yourself and before the judgement of others. At the end of every freedom there is a sentence, which is why freedom is too heavy to bear.

We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.

There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.