Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

The world is unimportant and whoever recognizes this conquers his liberty.

A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart.

There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man.

No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.