To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.

Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.

What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing; but instead of nonchalantly promenading our own corruption, we exude our sweat and grow winded upon the fetid air.

To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!

Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.