The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.

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

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.

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

Je puis nier une chose sans me croire obligé de la salir ou de retirer aux autres le droit d'y croire.

The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them Arabs. They laughed when they saw me. Then they asked what I was in for. I said I'd killed an Arab and they were all silent