It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what makes up the continuous flow of life. Here, I am talking of a space, of moments and discontinuities. For even if months and years appear here, it is in the form they have at the moment of commemoration.

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience.

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