There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

There are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye

If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given to us fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.

True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.

... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.