I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person

The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.

An existence transfigured by failure.

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

Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.

All philosophers should end their days at Pythia's feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments.

Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.