Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.

Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.

Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more.

Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information.

I think that if I am notorious, it is because other people have decided that this is how I should be.

It is interesting to note that the "sexual revolution" was sometimes portrayed as a communal utopia, whereas in fact it was simply another stage in the historical rise of individualism. As the lovely word "household" suggests, the couple and the family would be the last bastion of primitive communism in liberal society. The sexual revolution was to destroy these intermediary communities, the last to separate the individual from the market. The destruction continues to this day.

To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this was the single principle upon which Western society was based.