The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

I cannot become modest; too many things burn in me; the old

Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens,

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.

People’s fates are simplified by their names.

You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic.

I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.