“For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.”

“A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy...It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.”

“This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it. This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his own life as if he were telling a story.But you have to choose: live or tell.”

“We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences”

“Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it”

“Becoming sufficiently familiar with something is a substitute for understanding it.”