The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.

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

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.

Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.

Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.

The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.