We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

The metaphor is perhaps one of man’s most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.

Biography – a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

To live is to feel oneself lost.

Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.

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

A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

The poet begins where the man ends. The man’s lot is to live his human life, the poet’s to invent what is nonexistent.

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.