To hope is to contradict the future.
Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety.
Wisdom disguises our wounds; it teaches us how to bleed in secret.
When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and the repose of the conquered.
Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.
For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.