I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati's.

This is the basis for the joy of love when there is joy; we feel that our existence is justified.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

I have always been happy. Even if I had been more honest with regard to myself at that moment I should still have written La Nausee.

I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.

There are photographers who push for war because they make stories. They search for a Chinese who has a more Chinese are than the others and they end up finding one. They have him take a typically Chinese pose and surround him with chinoiseries. What have they captured on their film? A Chinese? Definitely not: the idea of the Chinese.

Philosophy appears to some people as a homogenous milieu: there thoughts are born and die, there systems are built, and there, in turn, they collapse. Others take Philosophy for a specific attitude which we can freely adopt at will. Still others see it as a determined segment of culture. In our view Philosophy does not exist.