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

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

We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.

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

One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world.

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.

You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious.