You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.

A writer is hoisted up onto a pedestal only to scrutinize him more closely and conclude that it was a mistake to put him up there in the first place.

People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.

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

For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay.

Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be the passive one.

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.