We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold.

In the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.

Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness.

Common European thought is the fruit of the immense toil of translators. Without translators, Europe would not exist; translators are more important than members of the European Parliament.

I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way.

I think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

...people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender themselves to deadly haste. Can you tell me what kind of day can follow a beginning of such violence? What happens to people whose alarm clock daily gives them a small electric shock? Each day they become more used to violence and less used to pleasure.