Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the multiplicity and diversity of the world, leaving you prey to your private obsessions.

The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.

True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.

To hope is to contradict the future.

He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.

Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.

Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact.