«To exist is to drink oneself without thirst.»

— Annie Ernaux, Les Années

«The boundaries that divide these worlds help define within each of them radically different ways of perceiving what it is possible to be or to become, of perceiving what it is possible to aspire to or not.»

— Didier Eribon, Returning to Reims

«...there rises to the surface of your consciousness everything from which you imagined you had freed yourself and yet which you cannot not recognize as part of the structure of your personality...»

— Didier Eribon, Returning to Reims