Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of form a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast - or else there is nothing at all.

Existence is an imperfection.

Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas.

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

There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.

I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.

I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence