To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough..

Spiritual life and secure life do not go together; to save oneself on must struggle and take risks..

I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image of his own soul..

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men..

Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place..

Sometimes I'm haunted by the thought that we have only one life and that we live it provisionally, waiting in vain for the day when real life will be….

No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old..

The State always stands for swindling, intrigue, and privilege, and cannot stand for anything else..

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among m….

The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists..

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of sayin….

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned..

Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it..

A wrong war brings wrong; so does a right war..