I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.

I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.

I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.

He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to free myself. According to him, human justice was nothing and divine justice was everything. I pointed out it was the former that had condemned me.

I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.