all success cloaks a surrender

That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.

What is very troubling is that people who have tried to write literature, even, for example, proletarian writers, seem to write within the norms of the dominant class.

I was very fond of Lagneau’s phrase: “I have no comfort but in my absolute despair.

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.

The individuals who seem to us most outstanding, who are honored with the name of genius, are those who have proposed to enact the fate of all humanity in their personal existences.

I think that Freud understood absolutely nothing about women - as he himself said.