The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost.
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.
Try to be free: you will die of hunger.
A book is a suicide postponed.
We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.