Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.

We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.

Society: an inferno of saviors!

Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.

To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act of aggression, a repetition of our Fall?

the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.

To act is to anchor in the imminent future.