I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.

Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?

After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.

Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence.

A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.