Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman.

Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.

I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use every moment toacquire gradually an encyclopedic lack of education.

The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.