Tolerance cannot seduce the young.

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.

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

To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!

We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.

I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.

Wisdom disguises our wounds; it teaches us how to bleed in secret.