True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.

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.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death.

Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.

False judges are held up in the world's admiration and I alone know the true ones.

Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.