“Give up the tyranny of female charm.”

“Without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yeild nothing on the plane of freedom”

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”

“What is a rebel? Someone who says no. But saying no does not mean giving up: it also means saying yes, with every gesture.”

“My dear friend, we mustn't give them even the slightest excuse to judge us! Otherwise, we end up in pieces.”

“There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.”

“It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.”