Empires and churches are born under the sun of death.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

A régime [Nazism] which invented a biological foreign policy was obviously acting against its own best interests. But at least it obeyed its own particular logic.

The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.

Murder is terribly exhausting.