Nothing is more real than nothing.

What is more true than anything else? To swim is true and to sink is true. One cannot speak any more of being, one must speak onlyof the mess.

Nothing is more real than nothing.

The pendulum oscillates between these two terms: Suffering-that opens a window on the real and is the main condition of the artistic experience, and Boredom ... that must be considered as the most tolerable because the most durable of human evils.

The only thing you must never speak of is your happiness.

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.