Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where people possess one another completely, and where life assumes the aspect of destiny?

It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

We are condemned to live together.

Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes.