Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life?

What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!

Sometimes I think I'm liquefying like an old Camembert.

As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-balancing of economic interests, what room will there be for virtue? When Nature has been so subjugated that she has lost all her original forms, where will that leave the plastic arts? And so on. In the mean time, things are going to get very murky.

Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.