Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.

I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone.

It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.

To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.

In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?