Word - that invisible dagger.

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

My enthusiasms...constitute my reserves, my unexploited resources, perhaps my future.

Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.

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.

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.

To accomplish nothing and die of the strain