Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.
True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.
Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity on fire.
To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.
Only one thing matters: learning to be the loser.
Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.