The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what others want us to be.
If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.
No matter how hard it is, we will never give up.
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.