The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.
When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.
We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.
The universal view melts things into a blur.
By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.