Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

The apprehension of necessity is an imitation of creation.

Official history is believing the murderers at their word.

Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

Our patriotism comes straight from the Romans. This is why French children are encouraged to seek inspiration for it in Corneille. It is a pagan virtue, if these two words are compatible. The word pagan, when applied to Rome, early possesses the significance charged with horror which the early Christian controversialists gave it. The Romans really were an atheistic and idolatrous people; not idolatrous with regard to images made of stone or bronze, but idolatrous with regard to themselves. It is this idolatry of self which they have bequeathed to us in the form of patriotism.