In a country lacking leaders, in Africa, for instance, how could a native educated in Europe refuse to become a professor, even at the price of his literary vocation?

Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.

I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers? Come on; they already had death in them: at most you simply hastened things a little.

Some of these days, Oh, you'll miss me honey

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

Like morality, literature needs to be universal. So that the writer must put himself on the side of the majority, of the two billion starving, if he wishes to be able to speak to all and be read by all. Failing that, he is at the service of a privileged class and, like it, an exploiter.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.