When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

It is not a question of living dangerously. That formula is too arrogant, too presumptuous. I don't care much for bull-fighters. It's not the danger I love. I know what I love. It is life itself.

The one thing that matters is the effort.

One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.

It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war.

To love is not to look at one another: it is to look, together, in the same direction.

If you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world…if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow