The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love.

The problem of responsibility would have a meaning only if we had been consulted before our birth and had consented to be precisely who we are.

My merit is not to be totally ineffectual but to have wanted to be.

When we discern the unreality of everything, we ourselves become unreal, we begin to survive ourselves, however powerful our vitality, however imperious our in…