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We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.
We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.
A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.
Under each formula lies a corpse.
I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.
Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.
No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.
We inhabit a language rather than a country.
We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.
Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.
Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.
The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.
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