Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

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

The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.

He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.

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.

Every form of talent involves a certain shameless-ness.

Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death!