If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.

It is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz.

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished rediscovers himself.

Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.