There are two ways of destroying a people. Either condemn them en bloc or force them to repudiate the leaders they adopted. The second is the worse.

Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil.

The appearance of the other in the world corresponds therefore to a congealed sliding of the whole universe.

God is the solitude of men. There was only me: I alone decided to commit Evil; alone, I invented Good. I am the one who cheated, I am the one who performed miracles, I am the one accusing myself today, I alone can absolve myself; me, the man.

[Stéphane Mallarmé] theory of the hermetic is a mistake, but he can be only difficult to read when he has difficult things to say.

In love, one and one are one.

One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.