The great novelists are philosopher-novelists whom write in images instead of arguments.

The fecundity and the importance of a literary form are often measured by the trash it contains.

The important thing, as Abbe Galiani said to Mme d'Epinay, is not to be cured, but to live with one's ailments.

The Empire supposes a negation and a certainty: the certainty of the infinite malleability of man and the negation of human nature.

What life means to me is to put the content of Shelley into the form of Zola. The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of 'art for …

At present, I am a poet trying to be a soldier. To tell the truth, I am not interested in writing nowadays, except in so far as writing is the expression of so…

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.