Genius never desires what does not exist.

In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. ... My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love.

I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.

It goes against the grain for me to do what so often happens, to speak inhumanly about the great as if a few millennia were an immense distance. I prefer to speak humanly about it, as if it happened yesterday, and let only the greatness itself be the distance.

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

The reign of the tyrant ends with his death, and the reign of the martyr starts with it.