Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.

A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own hands, an object imposed on me, an object for which the world provides the raw material and then steals it from me again, pulverized by events, scattered, broken, scored yet retaining its unity; how heavy it is and how inconsistent: this contradiction breeds many misunderstandings.

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself.

The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of expectancy...It was a journey without end, leading to an indefinite future, eternally shifting just as she was reaching the present.