If you seek authenticity for authenticity's sake you are no longer authentic.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I'm going to sleep.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: Hell is other people.

We do not wish to say only that a man is responsible for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for that of all men.

There are photographers who push for war because they make stories. They search for a Chinese who has a more Chinese are than the others and they end up finding one. They have him take a typically Chinese pose and surround him with chinoiseries. What have they captured on their film? A Chinese? Definitely not: the idea of the Chinese.