Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their climate.

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.

This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.

Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.

Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.

A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.

For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself.