The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

Writing is a way of fighting against the absurdity of life.

Painting is a way of forgetting oneself, of losing oneself in order to find oneself.

不要为那些不愿在你身上花费时间的人而浪费你的时间。