A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

I have no ideas, only obsessions. Anybody can have ideas. Ideas have never caused anybody's downfall.

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.