The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history.

I think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

I am not worthy of my suffering. A great sentence. It suggests not only that suffering is the basis of the self, its sole indubitable ontological proof, but also that it is the one feeling most worthy of respect; the value of all values.

The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order.

Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness.

In the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.

I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.