Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.

the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.

Society: an inferno of saviors!

The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion... One would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.

So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.

To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.

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