To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those who, by their very nature, can suffer completely, utterly, have an advantage. That is how we can disarm the power of suffering, make it our own creation, our own choice; submit to it. A justification for suicide.

Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.