There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.

Buying is profound pleasure.

When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior.

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

I consider it almost antifeminist to say that there is a feminine nature which expresses itself differently, that a woman speaks her body more than a man, because after all, men also speak their bodies when they write. Everything is implicated in the work of a writer.

A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.

I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.