Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the more we practice it, the more we become like everyone else: it is in the performance of a reputedly bestial function that we prove our status as citizens: nothing is more public than the sexual act.

Vague a l'ame - melancholy yearning for the end of the world.

Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.

Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.

We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.

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

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.