It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.

Everyone belongs to everyone else.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable

It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.