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.

How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!

For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors.

What has been forgotten is never something purely individual. Everything forgotten mingles with what has been forgotten of the prehistoric world, forms countless, uncertain, changing compounds, yielding a constant flow of new, strange products.

During long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanity’s entire mode of existence. The manner in which human sense perception is organized, the medium in which it is accomplished, is determined not only by nature but by historical circumstances as well

Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.

Only for the sake of the hopeless ones have we been given hope.