The unpleasant thing about society today is nowadays is that there is a confusion between people and their function or rather, people are tempted to identify with the function they perform. This is what's happening, particularly in totalitarian soc

Living is abnormal

A civil servant doesn't make jokes

The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly awar

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible

Marx was wrong; jealousy and pride, emotional forces, are just as responsible as hunger and necessity for our actions; they explain the whole of History, and the initial fall of man

The bold adventurer succeeds the best

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a 'will to renewal'. This is not the prerogative of the last decade only. All history is nothing but a succession of 'crises', of rupture, re