Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.

History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.

If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us.

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.