Tolerance cannot seduce the young.

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

Doubt works deep within you like a disease or, even more effectively, like a faith.

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j’ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning.

Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.

I don’t understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.