A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.

Once you see that everything is unreal, you can't see why you should bother to prove it.

My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are.

Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

There is only one thing worse than boredom, and that is the fear of boredom.

Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.

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.