I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love

You have to try the impossible to achieve the possible

The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow.

You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the other half the same way the priests and teachers do. You won't succeed. No one succeeds in this once he has begun to think.

One day I would be a better hand at the game. One day I would learn how to laugh. Pablo was waiting for me, and Mozart too.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.