In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all.

It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.

Life is a sum of all your choices". So, what are you doing today?

Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.

In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.

Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret.

And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.