I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.

The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands is the supreme separation.

Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.

The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at least the future belongs to them. The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.

I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.