You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the "mystery" of life.

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.

It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.