I have a remarkable memory; I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me.

God, he whom everyone knows, by name.

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.

Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies.

I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.