If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.

We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

To every instant there is a correspondence in something outside time. This world here and now cannot be followed by a Beyond, for the Beyond is eternal, hence it cannot be in temporal contact with this world here and now.

No one can crave what truly harms him.

If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters.