If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

Only those moments count, when the desire to remain by yourself is so powerful that you'd prefer to blow your brains out than exchange a word with someone.

I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it burst, the resonance it provoked in me, and an upheaval out of all proportion to this insignificant event thrust me into miracle, into the rapture of the definitive, as if there were no more questions-only answers. I was drunk on a thousand unexpected discoveries, none of which I could make use of. ... This is how I nearly reached the Supreme. But instead I went on with my walk.

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

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

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission.