To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. Take the cable thread by thread, take separately all the little determining motives, you break them one after another, and you say: that is all! Wind them and twist them together, they become an enormity.

Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.

The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.

It is often our best friends who throw us down.

Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.

To love beauty is to see light.