I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

The biologist passes. The frog stays the same.

We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.

On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle

One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.