The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live — moreover, the only one. - Emil Cioran

The wrinkles of a nation are as visible as those of an individual.

A man does not kill himself, as is commonly supposed, in a fit of madness but rather in a fit of unendurable lucidity, in a paroxysm which may, if so desired, be identified with madness; for an excessive perspicacity, carried to the limit and of which one longs to be rid at all costs, exceeds the context of reason.

To act is to anchor in the imminent future.