In wanting freedom we discover that it depends entirely on the freedom of others, and that the freedom of others depends on ours. . . I am obliged to want others to have freedom at the same time that I want my own freedom. I can take freedom as my goal only if I take that of others as a goal as well.

There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.

At times discreetly, at times disgustingly, I yielded to the most fatal temptation whenever I could no longer bear it: as a result of impatience, Orpheus lost Eurydice; as a result of impatience, I lost myself.

How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?

With a little luck that epoch may arrive. I am on the side of those who think that things will go better when the world has changed.

At that time [1954], as a result of political events, I was deeply preoccupied by my relations with the Communist Party.

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.