Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.
Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.
Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one who is searching for the Other.
A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.