It is in a small village in the Pyrenees where no one knows me 7that my life will come to a close.... There is not enough time remaining for me to write all the letters I would like to write.

Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information-hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.

The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph.

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Ideas are to objects as constellations are to stars [translated from Trauerspiel, 1928].

The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.

Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.