To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

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

To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June

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

The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.

Absurd, irreducible; nothing — not even a profound and secret delirium of nature — could explain it. Obviously I did not know everything, I had not seen the seeds sprout, or the tree grow. But faced with this great wrinkled paw, neither ignorance nor knowledge was important: the world of explanations and reasons is not the world of existence. A circle is not absurd, it is clearly explained by the rotation of a straight segment around one of its extremities. But neither does a circle exist. This root, on the other hand, existed in such a way that I could not explain it.