An existence transfigured by failure.

Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor.

Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.

Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.

It is enough for me to hear someone talk sincerely about ideals, about the future, about philosophy, to hear him say “we" with a certain inflection of assurance, to hear him invoke "others" and regard himself as their interpreter - for me to consider him my enemy.

If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism—I don't know whether he is to be admired or scorned, regarded as a saint or a corpse.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.