The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture.

The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.

It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

What is a firm hand to me, of what use to me is this astonishing power if I cannot change the order of things, if I cannot make the sun set in the east, that suffering diminish and that beings no longer die?

To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?

It is immoral not to tell.

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