We cannot put off living until we are ready.

Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.

Life is a terrible conflict, a grandiose and atrocious confluence. Hunting submerges man deliberately in that formidable mystery and therefore contains something of religious rite and emotion in which homage is paid to what is divine, transcendent, and in the laws of Nature.

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

History is the science of people.

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.