There is no book of mine that I reject. That does not mean that I find them good.

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

We do not wish to say only that a man is responsible for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for that of all men.

To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June

The universe remains dark. We are animals struck by catastrophe.

Something begins in order to end: an adventure doesn't let itself be extended it achieves significance only through its death.

I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.