The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.

We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.

Only when I am by seawater can I truly breathe, to say nothing of my ability to think.

Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned.

What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death