Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched.

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.

Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --

There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense, is greater than the entire universe. Boredom is an expression of a profound despair at not finding anything that can satisfy the soul's boundless needs.

What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.