For common minds have an ugly ability to perceive in the deepest and richest saying nothing but their own everyday opinion.

It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

For common minds have an ugly ability to perceive in the deepest and richest saying nothing but their own everyday opinion.

In wanting freedom we discover that it depends entirely on the freedom of others, and that the freedom of others depends on ours. . . I am obliged to want others to have freedom at the same time that I want my own freedom. I can take freedom as my goal only if I take that of others as a goal as well.

What is boredom? It is when there is simultaneously too much and not enough.

I should wish [Alain Robbe-Grillet] to realize that Guinea exists.