I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it's urgency.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me.

All the same, they [books] do serve some purpose. Culture doesn't save anything or anyone, it doesn't justify. But it's a product of man: he projects himself into it, he recognizes himself in it; that critical mirror alone offers him his image.

The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don't want to change the world; you want to blow it up.

The past is the luxury of proprietors.

Existence precedes and rules essence.