To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.

Paint what you like and die happy

France may one day exist no more, but the Dordogne will live on just as dreams live on and nourish the souls of men.

Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!

All the men she's been with and now you, just you, and the barges going by, masts and hulls, the whole damned current of life flowing through you, through her, through all the guys behind you and after you, the flowers and the birds and the sun streaming in and the fragrance of it choking you, annihilating you.

To imagine a new world is to live it daily, each thought, each glance, each step, each gesture, killing and recreating, death always a step in advance. To spit on the past is not enough. To proclaim the future is not enough. One must act as if the past were dead and the future unrealizable.