French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.