A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It’s not easy to be on the wrong foot with life.

Word - that invisible dagger.

So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the earth behind them strewn with corpses. Religions number in their ledgers more murders than the bloodiest tyrannies account for, and those whom humanity has called divine far surpass the most conscientious murderers in their thirst for slaughter.

We derive our vitality from our store of madness.