We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

In our rather stupid time, hunting is belittled and misunderstood, many refusing to see it for the vital vacation from the human condition that it is, or to acknowledge that the hunter does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, he kills in order to have hunted.

Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.