Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.

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

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

The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.

Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!

The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion... One would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.

True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.