Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

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

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.

A book is a suicide postponed.

What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.