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Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.
The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.
It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other.
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.
To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.
We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.
Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.
To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
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