The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something - love - from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.

You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.

Love is a desire for that lost half of ourselves.

Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.

I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.