I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away.

In Les Mots I explain the origin of my madness, of my neurosis. This analysis may help the young who dream of writing.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

It is enough that one man hate another for hate to gain, little by little, all mankind.