France is a country where thinking is supposed to be furtive, invisible, almost clandestine. France is a country of cliques and sects.
Bernard-Henri LevyI don't really believe in dialogue; I am too Nietzschean for that. We need to have a warrior conception of philosophy.
Bernard-Henri LevyI work even when I am on vacation. You know that line by Stรฉphane Mallarmรฉ, "All earthly existence must ultimately be contained in a book"? I am the kind of person who finds life interesting only if it is translated into writing, if it is parsed into words.
Bernard-Henri LevyThe Left is my family. And it is threatened by terrible demons, like differentialism. "differentialist Left" are people who have learned nothing about tolerance. Or justice. People who, hiding behind a backward sense of tolerance and justice, explain to us that we must accept all the actions of all civilizations, including the stoning of adulterous wives or the mutilation of little girls.
Bernard-Henri Levy