Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.

Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.

The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.