We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act.

To keep hope alive one must, in spite of all mistakes, horrors, and crimes, recognize the obvious superiority of the socialist camp.

What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal... For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.

I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me, and I have followed the source of rivers towards their source or plunged into forests, always making for other cities. I have had women, I have fought with men ; and I could never turn back any more than a record can spin in reverse. And all that was leading me where ? To this very moment.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

If you die, I will lie down beside you and I will stay there until the end, without eating or drinking, you will rot in my arms and I will love you as carcass: for you love nothing if you do not love everything.

I don't know. Everything. Living. Smoking.