Les trois quarts de nos exercices intellectuels ne sont plus que broderies sur le vide. Three quarters of our intellectual performances are no more than decorations over a void.

Un homme qui lit, ou qui pense, ou qui calcule, appartient a' l'espe' ce et non au sexe dans ses meilleurs moments, il e chappe me me a' l'humain. A person who reads or thinks or calculates, belongs to a kind and not to a gender in his or her best moments, he or she escapes being human.

Out of the debris of a statue thoroughly shattered a new art work is born: a naked foot unforgettably resting on a stone a candid hand a bent knee which contains all the speed of the foot race a torso which has no face to prevent us from loving it.

Entre le ro le de sauveur et celui de complice du bourreau,j'aper c° ois tout au plus l'incommode emploi de victime. Between the role of saviour and that of butcher's accomplice, all I see left for you is the unsavoury role of victim.