Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.
Madame Picard believed that a child should be allowed to read anything: 'A book never does any harm if it is well written.' While she was there, I had once asked permission to read Madame Bovary and m...
I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
An existant can never justify the existence of another existant.
To do something is to create existence
You're lucky. I'm always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
The sun is not ridiculous, quite the contrary. On everything I like, on the rust of the construction girders, on the rotten boards of the fence, a miserly, uncertain light falls, like the look you giv...
So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the burning marl. Old wives' tales! There's no need for red-hot pokers. H...
Peut-on juger une vie sur un seul acte ?
Now I knew: things are entirely what they appear to be—and behind them . . . there is nothing. This
Let us see what words can do. Will you understand me, for a start, if I tell you that I have never known what I am? My vices, my virtues, are under my nose, but I can’t see them, nor stand far enough...
L'enfer, c'est les autres.
He yawned; he had finished the day, and he had also finished with his youth. Various tried and proved rules of conduct had already discreetly offered him their services: disillusioned epicureanism, sm...
From time to time I yawn so widely that tears roll down my cheek.
3 o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
In love, one and one are one.
I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.