Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.
When a man dies, he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.
The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors
Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.
Suffering passes; having suffered never passes.
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.