"The story of Emma Bovary would hardly attract, if published in the daily news columns, much attention nowadays."

"Sur vos gerbes de pierre, j'écoute debout/L'unique son qui sonne en l'absence de tout"

"L'incertitude de l'issue constitue la misère humaine et l'intérêt du chant qui lui sert d'écho."

"We do not seek to enlighten our time, or to improve it, or to instruct it, but by revealing to it our own suffering and our own dreams we try to open to it again and again the world of images, the world of the soul, the world of experience."

"Recently I had to sort out my books again, because circumstances forced me to give away part of my library."