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.

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.

To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation.

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing; but instead of nonchalantly promenading our own corruption, we exude our sweat and grow winded upon the fetid air.