« Materialism takes us away from what makes us our identity and our humanity: the alarm was raised by poets a long time ago. But you never listen to poets. Stefan Zweig wrote of Rilke: "It seems wonderful to me that we had such poets before the eyes of our youth. But I wonder with a secret concern: will souls so totally devoted to lyrical art be possible in our time, with the new conditions of our existence, which tear men from all reverence and throw them out of themselves in a murderous fury, like a forest fire drives the animals from their deep retreats? Or our dear Thoreau, who went to live a year in the woods in Walden: "I think that our mind can be constantly desecrated by regularly attending trivial things, so that all our thoughts will be tinged with vulgarity. And also: "Once man has obtained the indispensable, there is an alternative other than that of obtaining superfluities; and it is to venture into the present life. Or Nietzsche: "Aren't all human institutions intended to prevent men from feeling their lives because of the constant dispersion of their thoughts? ». »

« What would they have said about our times? Poets and novelists have, as usual, seen the problem before others. It's there, now, huge, around us and in us. It is, as Cioran noted: "The nightmare of opulence. Fantastic accumulation of everything. An abundance that inspires nausea... ». »

« Life is what happens while you do useless things. »