It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it.
If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
Originally, poetry creates the myth, while the prose-writer draws its portrait.
I considered calmly that I was born to write.
The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.