Quotes by writer

"Man is a knot into which relationships are tied."

"To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world."

"It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war."

"Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young."

"I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them."

"I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons."

"To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible."

"We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men."

"Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life."

"No one is ever satisfied where he is."