What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself.

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.

True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.