All these young millionaires were anarchists, of course: when a man possesses everything it is the supreme luxury for him to deny society: for in that way he can evade his responsibilities

To understand everything is to hate nothing.

Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.

Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat.

One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.

There are some dead who are more alive than the living.