The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

... man has an idea of a better world than this. But better does not mean different, it means unified... Religion or crime, every human endeavor in fact, finally obeys this unreasonabledesire and claims to give life a form it does not have.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all.

I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about.

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.