Can you have a seance to summon the ghost of a dead zombie?
One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.
In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past.
The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.
What kind of life a dog. . . acquires. I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length on the ground and looking up. The world then becomes strangely incomplete; one sees little but legs.
People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche.
Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere, even in the areas of the bourgeois and the proletariat, what's left of them.
I always loved Kate Winslet, but after you meet her you really love her because she's a cool chick.
The angels stand between us and God, but they are translucent, even transparent, and they beckon us to penetrate their luminosity.
You don't have to like your family, you don't even have to spend time with them, to know them right down to the bone.