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We derive our vitality from our store of madness.
We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.
Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without... →
Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.
For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.
To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.
Our first intuitions are the true ones.
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
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