Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity on fire.

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

The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.

I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.

I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.

Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.