A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It’s not easy to be on the wrong foot with life.

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.

To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell

To possess a high degree of consciousness, to be always aware of yourself in relation to the world, to live in the permanent tension of knowledge, means to be lost for life.

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?

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.