It is because we are all impostors that we endure each other. The man who does not consent to lie will see the earth shrink under his feet: we are biologically obliged to the false

It is because we are all impostors that we endure each other. The man who does not consent to lie will see the earth shrink under his feet: we are biologically obliged to the false

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?

I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.

We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.

We inhabit a language rather than a country.

An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there.