We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.

A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others.

I devote myself to what I love the most, and for this very reason I hesitate to designate it with lofty words: I do not want to risk believing that it is a sublime compulsion, a law, which I obey: I love what I love the most too much to wish to appear to it as one compelled.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.

With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.

We only hear questions that we are able to answer.