A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they've had since time began. |
A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they've had since time began. |
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny. |
Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day. |
Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while. |
For that's what a woman, a mother wants - to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own. |
Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's the desire of a woman for a man who hasn't yet come to her, whom she doesn't yet know. She's faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him. |
I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhood and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met. |
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate. |
In love there are no vacations... No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that. |
It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most. |
It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him |
It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him |
It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs. |
Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. |