That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love.

When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?

An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.

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