If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

The recent experiences of pocketbooks prove this. I have changed my public since my works have been published in a smaller format.

Death is a continuation of my life without me.

Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals.

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

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was so complete, beneath a lovely sky as mellow and serene as a good conscience, amid that busy throng, that he was amazed at his own existence; he must be somebody else's nightmare, and whoever it was would certainly awaken soon.