Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.

We are condemned to live together.

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

There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.