Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

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

My profession lent itself nicely to my vocation for heights. It freed me of any bitterness towards my fellow men, who were alwaysin my debt, without my owing them anything. It placed me above the judge whom, I in turn judged, above the defendant whom I forced into gratitude.

More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.

Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law.

I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.