The first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things is to realize that this feeling of strangeness is shared with all men and that human reality, in its entirety, suffers from the distance which separates it from the rest of the universe.

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.

Absurd- that is the light mind that establishes its own borders.

No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.

I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.

If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.