Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter.

There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men.

When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.

Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter.

History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.

There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness.

Only a woman of the world is a woman; the rest are females.