If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.

Tolerance cannot seduce the young.

I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.

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

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.