Liberalism... is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet.

The librarian's mission should be, not like up to now, a mere handling of the book as an object, but rather a know how (mise au point) of the book as a vital function.

Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.

The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing without consequence.

Human vitality is so exuberant that in the sorriest desert it still finds a pretext for glowing and trembling.

The truth is that no horizon is especially interesting by itself, by virtue of its peculiar content, and that any horizon, wide or narrow, brilliant or dull, varied or monotonous, may possess an interest of its own which merely requires a vital adjustment to be discovered.

There is no doubt; even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.