If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.
There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.
We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.
To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.
If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.
Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves.