Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?