Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Europe has lived on its contradictions, flourished on its differences, and, constantly transcending itself thereby, has created a civilization on which the whole world depends even when rejecting it. This is why I do not believe in a Europe unified under the weight of an ideology or of a technocracy that overlooked these differences.

Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.

I shall not, as far as I am concerned, try to pass myself off as a Christian in your presence. I share with you the same revulsion from evil. But I do not share your hope, and I continue to struggle against this universe in which children suffer and die.

In order to exist, man must rebel.

God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.