Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope.

There is no point in asking me general questions because I am always changing my mind.

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

Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope.

it’s true this world our breathing laboured inspires nothing more than obvious disgust a desire to flee without our share and no longer read the headlines we long to return to our ancestral home where our forebears once lived under an angel’s wing we long to find that strange morality which sanctified life to the end we crave something like loyalty like the embrace of mild addictions something that transcends yet contains life we cannot live far from eternity

As a teenager, Michel believed that suffering conferred dignity on a person. Now he had to admit that he had been wrong. What conferred dignity on people was television.

I don't like this world. I definitely do not like it. The society in which I live disgusts me; advertising sickens me; computers make me puke.