As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.

Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.

When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.

Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves.

This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do not. Everything is unique - and insignificant.

Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.