The State always stands for swindling, intrigue, and privilege, and cannot stand for anything else.
Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it.
To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough. 
Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.
Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned. 
No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old.
Spiritual life and secure life do not go together; to save oneself on must struggle and take risks.
I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image of his own soul.
How pitiful is an intelligence used only to make excuses to quieten the conscience. 
The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists. 
But you can live in the most democratic country on earth, and if you're lazy, obtuse or servile within yourself, you're not free. 
In the countryside, secrets have a short lifespan