French novelist, art theorist and politician
The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
The mind supplies the idea of a nation but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.
If man is not ready to risk his life where is his dignity?,To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
