Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.

I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.

Once you see that everything is unreal, you can't see why you should bother to prove it.

I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.

I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers.

We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.

The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief.