There it is: I am gently slipping into the water's depths, towards fear.

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

Take [Stéphane] Mallarme. I hold him to be the greatest of French poets, and I have taken some time to understand him !

I have always been happy. Even if I had been more honest with regard to myself at that moment I should still have written La Nausee.

He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

We do not judge the people we love.