One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house.

One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house.

I wanted to swallow myself by opening my mouth very wide and turning it over my head so that it would take in my whole body, and then the Universe, until all that would remain of me would be a ball of eaten thing which little by little would be annihilated: that is how I see the end of the world.

We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent - or they themselves - was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible.

What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.

...the characters in my books all resemble each other. They live, with minor variations, the same moments, the same perils, and when I speak of them, my language, which is inspired by them, repeats the same poems in the same tone.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.