My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are.

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

What is that one crucifixion compared to the daily kind any insomniac endures?

Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the earth behind them strewn with corpses. Religions number in their ledgers more murders than the bloodiest tyrannies account for, and those whom humanity has called divine far surpass the most conscientious murderers in their thirst for slaughter.

No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.