The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.

Warmed-over loves and soups are generally not recommended.

What is man? Ally of God or simply his toy? His triumph or his fall?

Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past.

What would the future of man be if it were devoid of memory?

The deeper the nostalgia and the more complete the fear, the purer, the richer the word and the secret.

Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.

Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.

Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the counterrevolutionaries .

While punishing a recalcitrant pupil he suffered; he did not allow it to show because he did not want us to think him weak. He revealed himself only to God.