There is no frontier between being and appearing.

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

Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.

It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and, above all, it would keep him from thinking. He must create if he can, first and foremost, especially if his creation does not side-step the problems of his time.

In order to exist, man must rebel.

I realized people would soon forget me once I was dead. I couldn't even say that this was hard to stomach; really, there's no idea to which one doesn't get acclimatized in time.