To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the unbeliever and the man of faith are fundamentally the same, since both have made the only decision that defines a being.

The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love.

There was a time when time did not yet exist.

We inhabit a language rather than a country.

We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.

He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.

What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.