Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

We cannot put off living until we are ready.

To live is to feel oneself lost

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, 'here and now,' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.