As long as the writer cannot write for the two billion men who are hungry, he will be oppressed by a feeling of malaise.

[Stéphane Mallarmé] theory of the hermetic is a mistake, but he can be only difficult to read when he has difficult things to say.

Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.

Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing.

Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.)

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.

If you die, I will lie down beside you and I will stay there until the end, without eating or drinking, you will rot in my arms and I will love you as carcass: for you love nothing if you do not love everything.