There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart.

Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who danced in order to die.

The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.

I would like to be able to breathe— to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely.

Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.

There is no frontier between being and appearing.

An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.