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 do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself.

Our first intuitions are the true ones.

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.

Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.

I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.

Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.