You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.

Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish, all the secrets that slept deep within me came awake, everything was transformed and enchanted, and everything made sense.

So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration; it leaves you again in the desert.

No, I'm not religious, I'm sorry to say. But I was once and shall be again. There is no time now to be religious." "No time. Does it need time to be religious?" "Oh, yes. To be religious you must have time and, even more, independence of time. You can't be religious in earnest and at the same time live in actual things and still take them seriously, time and money and the Odéon Bar and all that.

Good that you ask. You should always ask, always have doubts.