It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.

... luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.

It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad.

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.

The poets did not win; the philosophers surrendered.

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It's a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don't want to die.