Basis of society: anonymous sweat.

In most cases we attach ourselves to in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do without it, that we have found something better, and we also attach ourselves to God in horror of men.

Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

To act is to anchor in the imminent future.

Every form of talent involves a certain shameless-ness.

One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world.