I do not think therefore I am a moustache

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

From the period when I wrote La Nausea I wanted to create a morality. My evolution consists in my no longer dreaming of doing so.

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.

Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.

Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection.

When she is alone in the rooms I hear her humming to keep herself from thinking.