Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.

The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society.

Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand this fatal game that leads from lucidity in the face of existence to flight from light.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland at the moment we are about to lose it.

No doubt our love was still there, but quite simply it was unusable, heavy to carry, inert inside of us, sterile as crime or condemnation. It was no longer anything except a patience with no future and a stubborn wait.

Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right.