True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.

I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero.

What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being forgotten, this debased coquetry?

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing; but instead of nonchalantly promenading our own corruption, we exude our sweat and grow winded upon the fetid air.

A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime.