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?

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods can do nothing against that man.

Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed up; I forget them almost immediately.

A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil.

Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.

The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don't want to change the world; you want to blow it up.