In most cases we attach ourselves to in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do without it, that we have found something better, and we also attach ourselves to God in horror of men.

Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.

I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person

A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It’s not easy to be on the wrong foot with life.

A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.