All I can do is make the best of what I am, become accustomed to it, evaluate the possibilities, and take advantage of them the best I can.

The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.

You see, the contemporary writer must write through his intimations of unease, while trying to elucidate them.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.

I have seen children dying of hunger. Over against a dying child La Nausee cannot act as a counterweight.