No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.
A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime.
The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest.
We derive our vitality from our store of madness.
There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.
Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.