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Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of my substantiality outside God, of my original existence.

It’s better to burn out, then to fade away.

We are all failures at least, all the best of us are.

We are each other’s magnitude and bond.

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.