Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.
I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.
When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.
Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
To love another person is to see the face of God.
History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.