Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.

Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.

Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity on fire.

"The Holy Ghost," Luther instructs us, "is not a skeptic." Not everyone can be, and that is really too bad.

Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.

If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing.

Basis of society: anonymous sweat.