My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission.
One doesn't live in a country, one lives in a language.
Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.
Tolerance cannot seduce the young.
We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.
The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.