Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population.

I consider Les Nourritures Terrestres as a frightening book: "Look for God in no other place than everywhere." Go and tell that to a workman, an engineer!

What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there.

Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.

I had spent my time counterfeiting eternity.

I do not think therefore I am a moustache

Originally, poetry creates the myth, while the prose-writer draws its portrait.