It is disgusting -- Why must we have bodies?

It's just what people do when they're getting old, when they're sick of themselves and their life; they think of money and take care of themselves.

I have always been happy. Even if I had been more honest with regard to myself at that moment I should still have written La Nausee.

Take [Stéphane] Mallarme. I hold him to be the greatest of French poets, and I have taken some time to understand him !

Handing over a bank note is enough to make a bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realize this possession.

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.