« You deny the real, refuse his annoyances and his trials. Envy is the child's own. Looking at the cake share of his fellow woman and voting for equality is one and the same approach. `...` You have abdicated your autonomy and intelligence to an assistantship made up of directives, instructions and regulations. Your ability to fully accept the authority of other people, "specialists", leaves your masters free to do with you what they want. All your life, like an infant, you will want a master servant, whom you have appointed state. (Ch I HOMO DOMESTICUS p. 40-41) »

« There was only the white silence, the steps that sometimes went down to the thighs, the icy snow falling into the shoes, the brambles clinging to the legs, the melting bottoms twisting their ankles, and those black trees, branched with snow, by the thousands, all around them, endlessly. »

« Outside, black people always revolved around their braziers. One of them poured something into the fire, the flames roared several meters, and this elemental monster spat in the wind a volley of snails that were lost in the dark, as if a blacksmith god had just struck the night with his iron hammer. »