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.

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

A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime.

What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!

What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.

Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.

I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.