I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.

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

Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.

I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

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.

Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a "talent;" my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith.