He who hates himself is not humble.

Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.

In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.

The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no further surprises, we are superior to whatever occurs, we are invincible victims.

Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.

I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since I have noticed that I always end by resembling my latest enemy.