"It is and will be impossible to reestablish any sort of contact with the men who are currently at the head of the [French Communist Party]. Each sentence they utter, each action they take is the culmi…"

"I'm not a writer who can describe things. I just describe the process of thought."

"To be ashamed is to be aware of the fact that I am myself the being by whom the world is revealed."

"The real world is not a dream, but it can be a nightmare."

"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."