« Ignorance, as the Buddha and Socrates already affirmed, is the cause of all evils. On the other hand, knowledge opens the way to change, to appropriate action, to freedom. »

« The images jostle, photograms of a film projected for him alone. He liked to heel his mare, straight ears and mane in the wind, in the waves of the ocean, until she was no longer on foot. He liked to see Gaston so cheerful in the early morning, sneaking into Lolita's box to hunt the mules under the hay. He found him leaping between the defeated balls, barking to lose his voice. He loved those evenings of serenity, sitting under a lime tree in the garden of his country house, his book fallen out of his hands, and the pink of the sky that bathed the world around him. Simple, intense pleasures. »