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.

Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.

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

If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised."

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

Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic.

Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.