Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

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

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

All people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes; but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How many have an inner beauty that tinges their melancholy?

This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do not. Everything is unique - and insignificant.

Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.