Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose.

At times discreetly, at times disgustingly, I yielded to the most fatal temptation whenever I could no longer bear it: as a result of impatience, Orpheus lost Eurydice; as a result of impatience, I lost myself.

emotion is first of all and in principle an accident

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection.

One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.

Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.