As if I didn't have enough troubles, here I am harassed by those that must have been known to the cavemen.

It is just possible to imagine God speaking French. Christy never. His words do not function in a language so ill at ease in the naive or the sublime

The apparent symmetry of joys and pains has nothing to do with their equitable distribution: it results from the injustice which strikes certain individuals, thereby forcing them to compensate by their despondency for the other's unconcern.

To express an obsession is to project it outside yourself. To hunt it down, to exorcise it. obsessions are the demons of a world without faith.

Keeping up is the mark of a fluctuating mind that pursues nothing personal, that is unsuited to obsession, that continual impasse.

Sexuality is a great leveler; better it strips us of our mystery...Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the more we practice it, the more we become like everyone else; it is in the performance of a reputedly bestial function that we prove our status as citizens: nothing is more public than the sexual act.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live— moreover, the only one.

Whatever induces collapse is thereby deserving of being listened to.

You must have powerful religious dispositions in order to utter with conviction the word being; you must believe simply to say about an object or about someone that it or he is.

That man is going to disappear has been, heretofore, my firm conviction. But now I've changed my mind: he must disappear.