An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion.

It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion.

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.

My dear friend, we mustn't give them even the slightest excuse to judge us! Otherwise, we end up in pieces.