All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.

We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve.

Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.

Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.

Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.

Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.