Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offers us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.
I'll tell you a great secret, my friend. Don't wait for the last judgement. It happens every day.
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the State.
Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.
What is a rebel? A man who says no.
We are all special cases. We all want to appeal to something! Everyone insists on his innocence, at all costs, even if it means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven.
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
