I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.

The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are.

An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.

Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who don't suffer, time flows, so that they don't live in time, in fact they never have.

Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.