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.

The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.

He who matures early lives in anticipation.

The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.

Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.