Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

The people with the clear heads are the ones who look life in the face, realize that everything in it is problematic, and feel themselves lost. And this is the simple truth: that to live is to feel oneself lost. Those who accept it have already begun to find themselves, to be on firm ground.

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.

What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the café.

When you are fed up with the troublesome present, you take your gun, whistle for your dog, go out to the mountain, and, without further ado, give yourself the pleasure during a few hours or a few days of being "Paleolithic."