The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.
Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret
Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much.
