We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.

Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

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

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 marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.