Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.

What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?

Work is the opposite of creativity.

Hope is the leash of submission.

Each component of the organism, like the individual in the social body, possesses the capacity for enjoyment of the self through sharing with others.

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.

In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life.