Existence is prior to essence.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

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.

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

Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil.

I enjoy feeling fastidious and aloof. I enjoy saying no, always no, and I should be afraid of any attempt to construct a finally habitable world, because I should merely have to say - Yes; and act like other people.

To keep hope alive one must, in spite of all mistakes, horrors, and crimes, recognize the obvious superiority of the socialist camp.