Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.

In most cases we attach ourselves to in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do without it, that we have found something better, and we also attach ourselves to God in horror of men.

No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have faith or not, just as it is all the same whether you cry or remain silent.

After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.

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

What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.

He who hates himself is not humble.