The form [of literature] matters little to me, classical or not.

You see, I'm fond of teasing, it's a second nature with me—and I'm used to teasing myself. Plaguing myself, if you prefer; I don't tease nicely.

The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.

Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.

Introspection is always retrospection

Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods can do nothing against that man.

I receive letters from workers, from secretaries. . . . They are the most interesting ones.