- "The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression." (from Nobel Prize in Literature Acceptance Address, December 10, 1957)
- "I know that creation is an intellectual and bodily discipline, a school of energy. I have never achieved anything in anarchy or physical slackness." (from "Three Interviews", 1959)
- "Art advances between two chasms, which are frivolity and propaganda. On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lies the freedom of art." (from "Resistance, Rebellion, and Death", 1960)
- "Freedom is not a gift received from a State or a leader but a pos¬session to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all." (from "Resistance, Rebellion, and Death", 1960)
- "There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it." (from "Resistance, Rebellion, and Death", 1960)
- "With freedom of the press, nations are not sure of going toward justice and peace. But without it, they are sure of not going there." (from "Resistance, Rebellion, and Death", 1960)
- "A time comes when one can no longer feel the emotion of love. The only thing left is tragedy" (from "Notebooks: 1935-1942", 1962)
- "An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself." (from "Notebooks: 1935-1942", 1962)
- "To grow old is to move from passion to compassion." (from "Notebooks: 1942-1951", 1965)
- "Contemporary literature. Easier to sock than to convince." (from "Notebooks: 1942-1951", 1965)
- "Illness is a convent which has its rule, its austerity, its silence, and its inspirations." (from "Notebooks: 1942-1951", 1965)
- "There are more things in men to admire than to despise." (from "Notebooks: 1942-1951", 1965)
- "We invent maxims to fill the holes in oir own natures." (from "Lyrical and Critical Essays", 1968)
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