I have no mission. No one has..

Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile..

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manuf….

Beauty is a rebellion against time..

Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas.

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is ….

The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return..

Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has his family, ….

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace..

At the end of true love is death, and only the love that ends in death is love..

The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty..

There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time ….

The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future... ….

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything..

The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries..

Yes, if you're looking for infinity, just close your eyes!.

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object..

I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails..

A man is responsible for his ignorance..

The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people..

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy..