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.

I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.

I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have dragged through I don't know how many consciences.

In a country lacking leaders, in Africa, for instance, how could a native educated in Europe refuse to become a professor, even at the price of his literary vocation?

Man is the being whose project it is to be God.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.