By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.

There is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording of all that which is omitted in books

France may one day exist no more, but the Dordogne will live on just as dreams live on and nourish the souls of men.

The purpose of life is to remember.

What have we to offer the world beside the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?

There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.