Do you think I can read [Alain] Robbe-Grillet in an underdeveloped country? He does not feel himself maimed.

Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

With a little luck that epoch may arrive. I am on the side of those who think that things will go better when the world has changed.

Take [Stéphane] Mallarme. I hold him to be the greatest of French poets, and I have taken some time to understand him !

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

So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: Hell is other people.