Adieu les monstres! Adieu les saints! Adieu l'orgueil! Il n'y a que des hommes. - Jean-Paul Sartre

Amuse yourself, torment your desires. Drink when you're thirsty — that would be very much too simple! If you didn't harbour a temptation eternally in your soul, you'd run the risk of forgetting yourself.

Me levanté, salí. Al llegar a la verja, me volví. Entonces el jardín me sonrió. Me apoyé en la verja y miré largo rato. La sonrisa de los árboles, de macizo de laurel quería decir algo; aquél era el verdadero secreto de la existencia.

I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.