I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.

Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.

Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties. Of it, at least, I am certain, and how can I deny this force crushing me.

That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love.

Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the uproar of empires and nations, a faint flutter of wings, the gentle stirring of life and hope. Some will say that this hope lies in a nation; others in a man. I believe rather that it is awakened, revived, nourished, by millions of solitary individuals whose and works every day negate frontiers and the crudest implications of history.

The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.