Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about. In my prison, when the sky turned red and a new day slipped into my cell, I found out that she was right.
I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason...
I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my executi...
He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always decieve ourselves twice about the people we love-first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage
Gula and Cali lie on their sides, their tiny adder-mouths showing the pink of their palates, their bodies throbbing with lustful and obscene dreams. The sky releases its burden of sun and color. Eyes...
For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life she had taken a 'fiancé,' why she had played at beginning again. Even there, in that home...
Empires and churches are born under the sun of death.
Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or...
But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.
Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.
Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.
Stupidity has a knack for getting its way.
Having money is a way of being free of money
Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
Nothing in life is worth,turning your back on,if you love it.
It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
من بیشتر با شکست یافتگان احساس همدردی میکنم تا با مقدسین. گمان میکنم که من قهرمانی و تقدس را زیاد نمیپسندم. آنچه برایم جالب است انسان بودن است.