We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

It is important not to trust people too much.

The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.

The world is always in movement.