To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head

All the same, they [books] do serve some purpose. Culture doesn't save anything or anyone, it doesn't justify. But it's a product of man: he projects himself into it, he recognizes himself in it; that critical mirror alone offers him his image.

My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I'm going to sleep.

Don't you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch myself, I wonder if I really exist.

The lad who dreams of being a boxing champion or an admiral chooses reality. If the writer chooses the imaginary, he confuses the two.

Man is the being whose project it is to be God.

I am not recommending "popular" literature which aims at the lowest.