Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.

The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other.

To laugh is to live profoundly.

Leroy interrupted Chantal's fantasies: "Freedom? As you live our your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom. You're free to melt your own individuality into the cauldron of the multitude either with a feeling of defeat or euphoria.

Only the basic situations in life occur only once, never to return. For a man to be a man, he must be fully aware of this never-to-return. (p.148)

I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself

The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.