A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts.

Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.

We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job.

The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.

To act is to anchor in the imminent future.