immortality is a terrible curse.

History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

It's important that you think of your relationship with the world and the way you can express that world and that you not be stopped if it scandalizes or embarrasses; but you must not look for scandal or for the avant-garde as a thing in itself.

Given masculine norms, it is clear that women are more likely to be considered crazy - I'm not saying to be crazy.

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.