The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.

Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, caf?s full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.