Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.

One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep.

Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.

The people I am afraid of are the ones who look for tendentiousness between the lines and are determined to see me as either liberal or conservative. I am neither liberal, nor conservative, nor gradualist, nor monk, nor indifferentist. I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

I am dying. I haven't drunk champagne for a long time.