“ The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone. ”

“ A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. ”

“ Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. ”

“ When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. ”

“ Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. ”

“ I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary. ”

“ An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. ”

“ To know oneself, one should assert oneself. ”

“ The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. ”

“ But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? ”