To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!

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

Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act of aggression, a repetition of our Fall?

To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation.

We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.

So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.