I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life.
What I lacked [in La Nausee] was a sense of reality. I have changed since. I have slowly learned to experience reality.
The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Introspection is always retrospection
There it is: I am gently slipping into the water's depths, towards fear.