To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness.

Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.

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.

To act is to anchor in the imminent future.

A book has to dig through the wounds, more, it has cause a new one, a book it has to be dangerous.

By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?

Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality. The passage from logic is consummated. Thus are born ideologies, doctrines, and bloody farce.