I needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid of this state of mind.

I consider Les Nourritures Terrestres as a frightening book: "Look for God in no other place than everywhere." Go and tell that to a workman, an engineer!

I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life.

Philosophy appears to some people as a homogenous milieu: there thoughts are born and die, there systems are built, and there, in turn, they collapse. Others take Philosophy for a specific attitude which we can freely adopt at will. Still others see it as a determined segment of culture. In our view Philosophy does not exist.

Life is a useless passion.

I believe, I desire, that social and economic ills may be remedied.

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