The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man.
We do not judge the people we love.
At times discreetly, at times disgustingly, I yielded to the most fatal temptation whenever I could no longer bear it: as a result of impatience, Orpheus lost Eurydice; as a result of impatience, I lost myself.
I admire [Samuel] Beckett, but I am totally against him. He seeks no improvement.
Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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!