The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.

One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world.

Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.

My enthusiasms...constitute my reserves, my unexploited resources, perhaps my future.

By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames.

We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job.