A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Everything is gratuitous, this garden, this city and myself. When you suddenly realize it, it makes you feel sick and everything begins to drift . . . that's nausea.

[Stéphane Mallarmé] theory of the hermetic is a mistake, but he can be only difficult to read when he has difficult things to say.

Man is abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no aim but what he sets himself.

Objects should not touch because they are not alive. You use them, put them back in place, you live among them: they are useful, nothing more. But they touch me, it is unbearable. I am afraid of being in contact with them as though they were living beasts.

When we love animals and children too much, we love them at the expense of men.

For common minds have an ugly ability to perceive in the deepest and richest saying nothing but their own everyday opinion.