Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?

To possess a high degree of consciousness, to be always aware of yourself in relation to the world, to live in the permanent tension of knowledge, means to be lost for life.

The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no further surprises, we are superior to whatever occurs, we are invincible victims.

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

I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero.

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.

A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society