What is boredom? It is when there is simultaneously too much and not enough.

There are photographers who push for war because they make stories. They search for a Chinese who has a more Chinese are than the others and they end up finding one. They have him take a typically Chinese pose and surround him with chinoiseries. What have they captured on their film? A Chinese? Definitely not: the idea of the Chinese.

We do not judge the people we love.

The plight of modern man is that he is condemmed to be free.

She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond", "What does?" "This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.

I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.