A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice.
To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation.
Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.
The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
There is no limit to suffering.
Read day and night, devour books - these sleeping pills - not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of spleen, discarding history and its illusions.