"There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction."

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."

"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what's the point of reading it? So that it will make us h…"

"I am nothing, I am a dream, I am a phantom."

"The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than the rationalization of a man who wants to rest for a moment."