One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is never united directly to consciousness. One can even imagine a pure and self-aware consciousness which thinks of itself as impersonal spontaneity.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

To be responsible is to be the uncontested author of an event or thing.

In Les Mots I explain the origin of my madness, of my neurosis. This analysis may help the young who dream of writing.

I have changed as everyone changes: within a permanency.