One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it's urgency.

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

Everything is gratuitous, this garden, this city and myself. When you suddenly realize it, it makes you feel sick and everything begins to drift . . . that's nausea.

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!

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don't want to change the world; you want to blow it up.