Every human endeavor, however singular it seems, involves the whole human race.

I consider Les Nourritures Terrestres as a frightening book: "Look for God in no other place than everywhere." Go and tell that to a workman, an engineer!

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

The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man.

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.

It is enough that one man hate another for hate to gain, little by little, all mankind.

Man's existence precedes his essence