The only purpose of cats is that they constitute mobile decorative objects.

Humans live in a world where the weak are dominant. This is a terrible insult to our animal nature, a sort of perversion or a deep contradiction.

The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.

Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying.

We don't recognize each other because other people have become our permanent mirrors. If we actually realized this, if we were able to become aware of the fact that we are only ever looking at ourselves in the other person, that we are alone in the wilderness, we would go crazy.

Civilization is the mastery of violence, the triumph, constantly challenged, over the aggressive nature of the primate. For primates we have been and primates we shall remain, however often we learn to find joy in a camellia on moss. This is the very purpose of education.

To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things.