This [service to oppressed] is the writer's task, and, if he fulfills it as he should, he acquires no merit from it.

The appearance of the other in the world corresponds therefore to a congealed sliding of the whole universe.

To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head

But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place.

Man is what he wills himself to be.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

For the time being I have seen enough of living things, of dogs, of men, of all flabby masses which move spontaneously.