There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.

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

God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.

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