Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

Art and revolt will die only with the last man.

Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.

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

The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.