The viable jewels of life remain untouched when man forgets his vocation of searching for the truth of his existence.

What is boredom? It is when there is simultaneously too much and not enough.

My pessimism has never been flabby.

Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.

I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.

A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom.

There are two ways of destroying a people. Either condemn them en bloc or force them to repudiate the leaders they adopted. The second is the worse.