One is and remains a slave as long as one is not cured of hoping.

To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.

What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!

No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive.

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

As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.

One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world.