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

Poetry is adolescence fermented and thus preserved

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself

Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do

To live is to feel oneself lost

Law is born from despair of human nature

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.”

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it