The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.

There is no salvation anywhere. The idea of salvation implies the idea of an absolute.

What's done at night belongs to the night. In the daytime you don't talk about it.

As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.

Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.

Besides one should not believe that the people only want reading that is easy to absorb.

I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.