On the Bigotry of Culture: : it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but is valid by it's own essence, whatever its concrete employment and content maybe. Human life was to put itself at the service of culture because only thus would it become charged with value. From which it would follow that human life, our pure existence was, in itself, a mean and worthless thing.

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

To write well consists of continuously making small erosions, wearing away grammar in its established form, current norms of language. It is an act of permanent rebellion and subversion against social environs.

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.