To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand

Biography is: a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

Meditation on any theme, if positive and honest, inevitably separates him who does the meditating from the opinion prevailing around him, from that which ... can be called 'public' or 'popular' opinion.

In order to be enchanted we must be, above all, capable of seeing another person simply opening one's eyes will not do.

An obsession is intrusive because it does not require a permit to walk into the brain.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation.

One does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, one kills in order to have hunted?If one were to present the sportsman with the death of the animal as a gift he would refuse it. What he is after is having to win it, to conquer the surly brute through

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.

Biography – a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.