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 golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.

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

Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety.

Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?

To accomplish nothing and die of the strain

To have committed every crime but that of being a father.