By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death

To love is to undress our names.

I sat at the foot of a huge tree, a statue of the night, and tried to make an inventory of all I had seen, heard, smelled, and felt: dizziness, horror, stupor, astonishment, joy, enthusiasm, nausea, inescapable attraction. What had attracted me? It was difficult to say: Human kind cannot bear much reality.

There is nothing sacred or untouchable except the freedom to think. Without criticism, that is to say, without rigor and experimentation, there is no science, without criticism there is no art or literature. I would also say that without criticism there is no healthy society.

My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature.