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

“What is a rebel? A man who says no.”

“man has an idea of a better world than this. But better does not mean different, it means unified… Religion or crime, every human endeavor in fact, finally obeys this unreasonable desire and claims to give life a form it does not have.”

“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.”

“Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.”

“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.”

“But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.”