Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact.

The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero.

What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

What strangely enchanted tunes gush forth during those sleepless nights!