The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost.

The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.

To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself violence, to act against one's own nature, to weaken oneself; we conceive freedom only for ourselves - we extend it to our neighbours only at the cost of exhausting efforts; whence the precariousness of liberalism, a defiance of our instincts, a brief and miraculous success, a state of exception, at the antipodes of our deepest imperatives.

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

I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero.

There was a time when time did not yet exist.

One hardly saves a world without ruling it.