Word - that invisible dagger.

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.

After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.

Vague a l'ame - melancholy yearning for the end of the world.

Read day and night, devour books - these sleeping pills - not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of spleen, discarding history and its illusions.

We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.