The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational animal when other animals are equally reasonable? But there is not another animal in the entire creation that wants to sleep yet cannot.

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

All people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes; but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How many have an inner beauty that tinges their melancholy?

We are born to exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.