“I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.”
“The taste of music with the inhabitants of Venus and Jupiter is at a high level, similar to that of Frenchmen or Italians.”
“Only one sort of man is worse than an Italian when it comes to their appetite for women.""Oh? And what is that?""A Frenchmen.”
“As far as I'm concerned it's the other way round. We repeat what we remember. Only forgetfulness sets us free.”
“Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away (from the animal, our plate, our concern, ourselves) or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something”
“I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.”