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.

Tolerance cannot seduce the young.

When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, "What’s your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act." And they do calm down.

A sensation must have fallen very low to deign to turn into an idea.

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.