No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation."

I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile.

It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.

Where I live, everything is very small.