Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

It is easier to kill what we do not know.

For what gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. Travel robs us of such refuge. Far from our own people, our own language, stripped of all our props, deprived of our masks (one doesn't know the fare on the streetcars, or anything else), we are completely on the surface of ourselves.

If the world were clear, art would not exist.

Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.