When one loves animals and children too much, one loves them against human beings.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

We will not go to Heaven,Goetz, and even if we both entered it, we would not have eyes to see each other, nor hands to touch each other. Up there, God gets all the attention.... We can only love on this earth and against God.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

The sun is not ridiculous, quite the contrary. On everything I like, on the rust of the construction girders, on the rotten boards of the fence, a miserly, uncertain light falls, like the look you give, after a sleepless night, on decisions made with enthusiasm the day before, on pages you have written in one spurt without crossing out a word.