Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic. Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.