"There was one, the majority, filled with the men sparked by faith and certitude, and the other handed over to questioning, anxiety and bullying."

“You do not easily part with utopia; it is an acid that cuts holes in the opacity of dogma.”

“As long as music can transport the spirit, painting can make the core bloom with a rapture of colors, and poetry can make the heart pound with rebellion and hope, they will have gained nothing.”

“Words, put end to end, bring doubt and change. Words above all must not conceive of the utopia of another form of truth, of unsuspected paths, of another place of thought.”

“They have understood the danger in words, all the words they cannot manage to domesticate and anesthetize.”

“Books constitute the safest refuge against this world of horror.”

“What is persecuted above all, and more than people's opinions, is their ability to create and propagate beauty.”